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Weekly Report - 26 July 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)
BOLIVIA: Masses mobilised to block debate on the capital
President Evo Morales has once again resorted to mass mobilisation as a
means of bending the will of the opposition within the constituent assembly.
More than a million people assembled in El Alto on 20 July and threatened the
assembly with a general strike if it did not remove a proposal to move the
country's administrative capital back from La Paz to Sucre from its agenda.
Since 1899 Sucre has been reduced to the seat of the judiciary.
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