Argentine President, Focus of
Attention in Bolivia
LA PAZ - Argentine President Cristina
Fernandez'' visit to Bolivia hit the
headlines this week in this Andean country.
In the Bolivian city of Sucre, Fernandez and
Evo Morales went to a ceremony to sign a
contract that would allow gradual increase
of the gas supply to Argentina from 177
million cubic feet to 953 million cubic feet
per day up to the year 2017.
Another project was laying the Juana Azurduy
de Padilla gas pipeline up to the border
with Argentina, with a $100 million
investment.
The visit had another toucbhing moment when
Fernandez gave Bolivian independentist
heroine Juana Azurduy a postmortem promotion
to the military rank of General of the
Argentinean National Army.
During the last seven days, the UN Human
Rights Commissioner's Office report
attracted the attention, becuse it proved
progress in Bolivia during the last year,
regarding this subject.
In this respect, that report also
acknowledged the progress in justice
administration, regarding the case of the
massacre in Pando department in 2008.
As it happens, that same day, they scheduled
for May the trial against Pando's ex prefect
Leopoldo Fernandez, the main responsible
person for the killing of almost 20 farmers
on September 11, 2008.
Referring to terrorism, the Special Force
against Crime arrested Luis Lopez Arana,
possible author of the explosion of two
bombs that left seven people seriously
wounded in La Paz in August, 2009.
Faced with the regional elections on April
4, poll results show that the governing
Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has won the
electoral preference in five of the nine
Bolivian departments.
According to those results, the MAS would
win in La Paz, Oruro, Potosi, Cochabamba and
Pando, while the Bolivian opposition would
be the winner in Beni and Santa Cruz, but in
the southern Tarija and Chuquisaca
departments, there would be a tie. |
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