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Article: Bolivia's Leading Indigenous Leaders Speak in Wake of 'Black October'.
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- March 3, 2004
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By Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 3--Bolivia, South America's most heavily indigenous country, remains tense months after a national protest wave led by Indians brought down the government in "Black October" or "the Gas War." At issue was President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada's approval of a plan to build a pipeline linking Bolivia's natural gas fields to a terminal on the Chilean coast for export to California. The security forces responded to peasant road blocks with violence, leaving at least 80 dead - and international fears of a coup d'etat - before Sanchez de Lozada fled to Miami Oct. 17. His ...