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Weekly Report - 26 September 2006
BOLIVIA: Government continues to back down from tough talk
The pattern set in recent weeks by the government of President Evo Morales, that of indulging in tough rhetoric and political gestures only to back down at the first sign of this backfiring, continued throughout last week, in both the international and domestic arenas. A rebuke by Brazilian president Lula da Silva prompted a retreat from the residual belligerence over the negotiations with Petrobrás [WR-06-37]; political uproar over what appeared to be a call to arms by the acting president led to the swift lifting of the siege imposed by peasant organisations on the eastern city of Santa Cruz.
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