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October 19, 2003
Across the Americas, Indigenous Peoples Make Themselves Heard
By Hector Tobar , Times Staff Writer
EL ALTO, Bolivia - Above the rocky bowl of La Paz, this vast township of brick and adobe homes stretches across a dry plain. This is where the Aymara Indians of western Bolivia come to live and work when their farms can no longer feed them.
For the past week, the hardscrabble order of El Alto gave way to a fervor of rebellion. Armed with the traditional weapons of the (…)

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By Thomas Goetz
Cholera is one of those 19th-century ills that, like
consumption or gout, at first seems almost quaint, a
malady from an age when people suffered from maladies.
But in the developing (…)

Thousands Seek Ouster of Bolivian Leader
By KEVIN GRAY, Associated Press Writer
October 17, 2003, Reuters
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=721&e=8&u=/ap/20031017/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/bolivia_protests
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada inherited a country suffering a deep economic crisis and long- simmering class and racial tensions when he became president of Bolivia.
Now those problems have exploded into deadly street riots that (…)

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by Tom Kruse
BOLIVIA WATCH (znet.org) October 15, 2003
The current crisis in Bolivia is social, economic and political. Socially, despite improvement in service coverage, poverty and vulnerability have been increasing. The vulnerability of families to shocks and displacement, especially among the rural poor, has worsened dramatically. Economically, growth has been poor, and accompanied by growing structural unemployment and underemployment. Over 7 of 10 new jobs created in the past 15 (…)

By LEONIDA ZURITA-VARGAS
Published: October 15, 2003 New York Times
OCHABAMBA, Bolivia — There has been rioting in Bolivia for nearly four weeks now. News reports say that the riots have been over the construction of a pipeline to ship natural gas to the United States. That’s true, but there’s a deeper anger at work: anger toward the United States and its war against a traditional Bolivian crop, coca.
You see, because of the American drug problem, we can no longer grow coca, which was (…)

Rafah camp hit again by Israeli bulldozers
By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem
Amos Oz: ’I have always maintained the solution is partition’
Israeli tanks and bulldozers moved back into the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip yesterday, just days after the Israeli army destroyed about 100 houses, leaving some 2,000 people homeless and eight, including two children, dead.
At the same time, the Israeli army ordered 15 Palestinians being held without trial to be permanently deported from (…)

Asia Times
US explores its Afghanistan exit options
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
KARACHI - With Afghanistan daily slipping into more anarchy and chaos, United States authorities, aware that they are unlikely to ever bring stability to the country by military means, continue to explore political avenues that ultimately could pave the way for them to withdraw from the country.
First there were the talks at the Pakistan Air Force base in Quetta with "moderate" elements of the Taliban (which (…)

Army probes soldier suicides - "Alarmed by the number of suicides in Iraq"
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY
USA Today - October 13, 2003
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20031013/ts_usatoday/11899022
Alarmed by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq the Army has asked a team of doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is contributing to the deaths.
"The number of suicides has caused the Army (…)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=349348&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
UN official: 1,240 Palestinians made homeless by Rafah raid
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Up to 1,240 Palestinians have been made homeless in the most recent operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip, a senior United Nations official said Sunday.
Peter Hansen, commissioner general of the UN Relief and (…)