WORLD BRIEFING / BOLIVIA
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Bolivia demanded that Peru hand over three former government ministers charged with genocide in the 2003 killing of dozens of protesters, and President Evo Morales called asylum an “open provocation of the Bolivian people.”
Peru’s president, Alan Garcia, granted asylum to one of the former officials, Jorge Torres, in April and is reviewing requests from the other two.
The neighboring South American nations have been at odds since Garcia, an economic liberal, and Morales, a leftist, took office in 2006.
Soldiers sent to quell an anti-government protest in 2003 killed 63 demonstrators in the city of El Alto, a bastion of support for the leftist Morales. No charges were filed until after Morales became president.
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