Andean Group - 4 May 2004
BOLIVIA: Mesa threatened by coup plots - and invasion?
From the acting President down, officials in Bolivia have been devoting much time to dismissing coup rumours as unfounded while simultaneously acknowledging that there are people plotting to destabilise President Carlos Mesa or cut short his mandate. Discerning what is actually happening has been made all the more difficult by a so-called `counter-intelligence report' released by opposition leader Evo Morales, which conflates fact and imaginings in a scenario of multiple coup conspiracies combined with Chilean (and US) military intervention
From the acting President down, officials in Bolivia have been devoting much time to dismissing coup rumours as unfounded while simultaneously acknowledging that there are people plotting to destabilise President Carlos Mesa or cut short his mandate. Discerning what is actually happening has been made all the more difficult by a so-called `counter-intelligence report' released by opposition leader Evo Morales, which conflates fact and imaginings in a scenario of multiple coup conspiracies combined with Chilean (and US) military intervention
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