From Bolivia's capital La Paz high in the Andes to the steamy city of Santa...
LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ - From Bolivia’s capital La Paz high in the Andes to the steamy city of Santa Cruz in the eastern lowlands, weeks of protests have loosened leftist President Evo Morales’ grip on power and left his South American nation deeply divided.
In a damning report, the Organization of American States said on Sunday that Morales’ election victory should be annulled due to irregularities and a new ballot held. The OAS announcement prompted several key allies - including a minister, regional governor and government legislators - to resign. “If we continue like this, we will be worse than Venezuela,” Patiño said, referring to an economic and political crisis in another left-leaning South American nation that has driven more than 3 million inhabitants to flee in recent years.
Morales appealed to Bolivia’s top court, packed with government loyalists, which struck down term limits allowing him to run for a fourth straight mandate, a move that angered even some of those who supported him before. In a setback to Morales, Juan Carlos Huarachi - the head of the Bolivian Workers’ Confederation union group - dropped his staunch support for the president on Sunday and urged him to consider stepping down if it would help restore peace.
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