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Weekly Report - 17 May 2005
BOLIVIA: Mesa caught in a vise as diversionary gambit fails
After the failure of a ploy to sidestep a confrontation with congress and head off a wave of protests - all hinging on the recently approved hydrocarbons law - President Carlos Mesa has been left in a most disadvantageous situation. The protest actions, surprisingly strong at the outset, are underway, and, at the time of publication, the deadline will have expired for Mesa to decide what to do with the law.
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