[NYTr] Venezuelan, Cuban offices attacked in Bolivia

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

["unknown assailants?"  yes.  Who hired them is not in the slightest
doubt.... the CIA]

AP via CNN - Oct 22, 2007
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/10/22/bolivia.explosions.ap/index.html

Venezuelan, Cuban offices attacked in Bolivia

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP)  -- Unknown assailants tossed sticks of
dynamite early Monday at the Venezuelan consulate in the eastern
Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, while others hurled Molotov cocktails at a
residence housing Cuban doctors, government officials said.

 No one was injured, and the explosions caused only minor damage.

The attacks remain under investigation, said Col. Enrique Urquidi,
Santa Cruz director of the Bolivian national police.

"We condemn these type of violent, cowardly actions designed to create
a climate of tension, anxiety and terror in the country -- a climate we
do not believe exists," said presidential spokesman Alex Contreras.

A center of rightist opposition to President Evo Morales, Santa Cruz
chafes at his close ties to leftist governments in Venezuela and Cuba
and is pushing for greater autonomy from his government.

Some international flights to Santa Cruz's airport, Bolivia's busiest,
were grounded last week in a heated dispute between local authorities
and the Morales administration over landing fees.

 Last year, anti-Morales factions in Santa Cruz fired gunshots at the
home of a government minister and offices of nonprofit groups
sympathetic to his administration.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.