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- From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: South America news
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- /* Written 6:34 pm Sep 10, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
- /* ---------- "South America news" ---------- */
- From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704
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- BOLIVIA
- A 128-strong US military contingent has begun to pull out of
- Bolivia, where they arrived last June under the pretext of carrying
- out civil missions. Their presence in northern Bolivia, allegedly
- to build schools and latrines, came under heavy fire from
- opposition and the ruling party.
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- The US soldiers never finished their tasks, prompting opposition
- and union leaders to believe that they were in Bolivia to conduct
- a secret military operation.
-
- The Bolivian government was highly criticized from all quarters for
- not asking Congress for permission to let the contingent into the
- country. After a heated debate, the Bolivian Congress gave the
- authorization just hours before the US soldiers began to leave the
- South American nation.
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- Their withdrawal will be completed Sept. 20. (R. Havana 9/6)
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- COLOMBIA
- The whereabouts of six Colombian officials from the Attorney
- General office in Barranca Bermeja are still unknown. Unidentified
- individuals kidnapped them Sept 6 when they were on their way back
- from exhuming and identifying bodies in Santander Department.
-
- Eleven more personnel were killed by death squads in that
- department in 1989. (R. Havana 9/7)
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- PERU
- A car bomb explosion outside a police post in Lima, the Peruvian
- capital, left one policeman dead and several other people wounded.
- Seven people were also killed Sept 5 when a van packed with
- dynamite and chemicals blew off in the capital.
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- Police blame Shining Path guerrillas for the blast, which followed
- attacks on buses and cars in the southeast of the country, which
- claimed ten lives. (R. Havana 9/7)
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