When Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada became President of Bolivia in 2002, Chvez was about to be deported.
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The leftist President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said Washington had no right to question Mr Maduro's victory because George W Bush won the White House by a similarly narrow margin in 2004.
Goni, a successful businessman raised in America, had been President of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 and had instituted a center-left program of privatization combined with social security and national health care.
President EVO MORALES (President of Bolivia): (Through Translator) We came here on this historic day, an important day, to comply with the feelings, the proposals of the Bolivian people, which is the naturalization of the natural resources, the hydrocarbons.
The election of Evo Morales as President of Bolivia late in 2005 and the election of Rafael Correa as President of Ecuador late last year have accelerated the formation of a new Latin American axis which might have serious repercussions for the region in general and also for the United States.
President Evo Morales of Bolivia called the Colombian decision to host the Americans "treason", while Mr Ortega said it was "a threat to regional stability".
But for now, at least, there is real hope that the "better days" Bolivia's new president speaks of are finally on their way.
Indeed, Chavez has facilitated the trans-shipment of drugs through Venezuelan territory and airports as well as openly supporting commercialization of coca (as in Bolivia where President Evo Morales is a close Chavez ally).
Bolivian President Evo Morales, who is also the head of Bolivia's coca growing union, had campaigned hard to get the UN to reverse what he called a "historic wrong" and lift its longstanding ban on the chewing of coca leaves.
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He rejects accusations from outgoing President Nicanor Duarte that he would follow the style of leftist leaders in Bolivia and Venezuela if elected.
In Bolivia, President Evo Morales has built a strong base of support among the poor in the country's high plains since taking office in 2006.
In La Paz, Bolivia today, President-elect Evo Morales takes the oath of office to become the first President of a land locked nation where over 60 percent of the population is Indian.
In comments reported on the Hudson New York website, Ricardo Udler, the president of the small Bolivian Jewish community, said there is a direct correlation between Bolivia's growing ties with Iran and its animosity towards Israel.
Order has collapsed in Haiti, Venezuela is governed by a populist with authoritarian tendencies, Bolivia's next president may be a similar character and the governments of Ecuador and Peru are shaky.
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Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, who doubles as the leader of the coca-growers' union, insists that he is opposed to cocaine, though not to coca (which is traditionally chewed by Andean Indians).
The law was signed by Bolivia's Vice President, Alvaro Garcia Linera, as Mr Morales is out of the country.
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Escobar, who has now turned against Morales, made headlines in Bolivia this January, when he openly demanded President Morales to fire Chvez accusing him of promoting confrontational policies which are driving people apart and that he is pushing Evo to provoke a fight between the people of the cities of La Paz and Santa Cruz.
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The country's vice-president said that it no longer made economic sense to subsidise an industry whose profits were flowing out of Bolivia.
From on top of a hill overlooking the ruins dating back 1, 500 years, Bolivia's next president appears.
On the other hand, if successful, Pizango and Aidesep would achieve great riches, paving the way for Ollanta Humala to become president, and converting Hugo Chavez into the supreme leader of yet another Latin American nation, in addition to Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Bolivia has "irrefutable evidence" that the US has been working to destabilise the government of President Evo Morales, a senior minister has said.
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The only clear point is that by persuading more than half of the electorate to turn out to vote, Carlos Mesa, who has been Bolivia's president only since October, has demonstrated his own political popularity.
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