Bolivian Socialist President (and friend of Thugo Chavez) has begged European diplomats to intermediate in a dispute with the governors of four provinces that are threatening to secede:
SANTA CRUZ (AFP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales met European diplomats about possibly mediating a crisis between the government and provinces threatening to declare autonomy, his spokesman Alex Contreras said Saturday.
Morales spoke with ambassadors from the European Union late Friday in La Paz as the country's four wealthiest provinces threatened to break away from central government control Saturday, a move Morales warned could provoke the army's intervention.
Amid fears that the tense political showdown over Morales' efforts to rewrite the constitution could tip into civil unrest, demonstrations were due to take place Saturday in the eastern states of Santa Cruz, Tarija, Beni and Pando, in which the governors were to formally announce greater self-rule.
"There was an exchange of views and (discussion of) the possibility that they could be monitors of a possible dialogue with the provinces and President Evo Morales," Contreras told local press of the meeting.
The European ambassadors passed on to Morales the views of the leaders of the rebel provinces, and Morales told them his government was willing to launch a dialogue, according to Contreras.
"It was a positive meeting," he said, adding it was crucial to establish a dialogue that could reach a compromise to ease the mounting crisis.
The leaders of the regions are protesting Morales's moves to overhaul the constitution to boost the president's powers and to redistribute much of the eastern provinces' wealth to the poor Andean highlands.
I can just picture what the limousine marxists in the USA and Europe are thinking about this. Those awful eastern province Bolivians must be racist, sexist, homophobic lackeys of Rush Limbaugh, and are probably on the payroll of Halliburton while being manipulated behind the scenes by Karl Rove.
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