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OAS envoy arrives in Bolivia to mediate in political crisis


www.chinaview.cn 2008-05-01 10:46:41

LIMA, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The Organization of American States (OAS) sent an envoy to Bolivia Wednesday to try to defuse tensions between the South American country's central government and the opposition.

OAS Secretary for political affairs, Argentine Dante Caputo met with Bolivian President Evo Morales on the current political crisis in the country, said a news reaching here from La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital.

The political crisis stemmed from Morales' plans to revise Bolivia's constitution to redistribute much of the wealth of the eastern provinces to the poorer Andean highlands.

Caputo, who arrived Wednesday in Bolivia, seeks to mediate a dialogue between the government and the opposition governors.

"I am going to make all efforts possible to help them establish dialogue, it is difficult but that is why we are here," said Caputo.

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