Brazil won't tolerate a Bolivian coup

by rahul | September 12, 2008 at 01:43 am

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In reaction to both current Bolivian protests and the diplomatic crisis among La Paz, Caracas and Washington, Brazilian government tool a pro democracy stand. It stated that a rupture of the constitutional order in Bolivia would not be tolerated.

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:43:24 GMT Brazil will not accept any attempt to overthrow the government in Bolivia as opposition protests there spiraled into deadly clashes with government. "We won't tolerate a rupture in the constitutional order of Bolivia," Marco Aurelio Garcia, foreign policy adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told a news conference. "Brazil will not recognize any attempt at a government that would substitute a constitutional government in Bolivia," Garcia said when asked whether this meant Brazil would send troops to aid the Bolivian government of President Evo Morales. Garcia said Morales was prepared to receive emissaries from Brazil, Argentina and Colombia and only needed to say when.
Bolivian protesters damaged a pipeline on Wednesday, cutting one-tenth of the country's natural gas exports to Brazil, which relies heavily on them.
SG/HAR. Original source at PressTV

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