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Weekly Report - 19 March 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)

BOLIVIA: Morales agrees to Church mediation

President Evo Morales last week gave the green light for the Roman Catholic Church to mediate in the political crisis caused by the new draft constitution and bids for greater autonomy by departmental prefects. The move was heralded by various sectors as the latest hope for a way out of the political stalemate. It has yet to result in concrete signs of progress, however, not least because the prefects have reverted to their original demand - that the government revoke the law re-allocating the hydrocarbons tax (IDH).

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