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<title>
Bolivia: Global Terrorism
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<article>
<hdr>
Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
Latin American Overview: Bolivia
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<body>
<p> Bolivian terrorists hit power pylons belonging to a US-owned
power company three times in 1991, all low-level bombing
incidents. Domestic terrorism, however, increased almost
sevenfold. More than 40 bombing incidents occurred. Among the
targets were Bolivian Government buildings near the US Embassy.
Five bombs detonated at the La Paz International Airport. The
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ), part of the refurbished
National Liberation Army (ELN), and several previously unknown
terrorist groups claimed responsibility for a handful of the
attacks, but most went unclaimed. The new groups included the
Tupac Guerrilla Army (EGTK) and the Tomas Katari Communal Army
(ECTK). Both advocate the return of Bolivia to precolonial forms
of government and indigenous Indian culture.
</p>
<p> The Bolivian Government initiated improvements in its
domestic and regional counterterrorism programs, while publicly
downplaying the increase in terrorist incidents. The government
established various crisis management mechanisms and began
developing a national counterterrorism strategy. The Bolivian
police held high-level meetings with their counterparts from
Chile, Peru, and Brazil to help improve coordination against
cross-border terrorism. While these steps demonstrated greater
political willingness to deal with terrorism than in past years,
a severe lack of resources and investigative and judicial
weaknesses continued to hamper the government's ability to
counter the growing terrorist problem. Nonetheless, eight
members of the Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (FALZW)
received stiff sentences for their role in the 1988 attack on
Secretary Shultz's motorcade and the murder of two US Mormon
missionaries in 1989. At the close of 1991, a trial was also
under way for CNPZ terrorists who attacked the US Marine
guard-house in La Paz in October 1990.
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<p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
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