1) Play 'spot the difference'.
2) Note the total regional support of Evo Morales and his government.
3) Note how you have to come to a small corner of cyberspace to hear what's really going on.
4) Note that even Alan García gets one right occasionally.
5) Note the only regional President not to have made an official statement or used official diplomatic channels is Alvaro Uribe of Colombia.
Also, just to lighten the dense text find some photos of those loveable democratic Santa Cruz scamps and their handiwork.
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Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile:
"We call for the immediate cessation of violence in Bolivia....conditions must be generated for peaceful dialogue."
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Chancellor of Argentina (speaking of behalf of the government)
"Faced with the serious violence and terrorist sabotage reported in the sister republic of Bolivia, (the Argentine government) fully reiterates its full and unconditional support for the constitutional government of President Evo Morales Ayma."
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Spokesperson for President Lula da Silva, Brazil
"We will not support or tolerate a rupture of institutional order in Bolivia, above all because this order was recently ratified by a manifestation of its people (i.e. the referendum)".
"(Brazil) will not recognize any government that substitutes or tries to substitute the legitimate constitutional government of Bolivia."
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Tabaré Vasquez, President of Uruguay
"(I express my) total support and solidarity of the authorities of Bolivia elected freely and democratically."
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Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador (currently on state visit to Peru and speaking in the presence of Alan García)
"Obviously, President Morales and his government has the unrestricted support of Ecuador, and as I have said to President García of Perú, the unrestricted support of democracy and the unity of Bolivia."
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Alan García, President of Peru
"(I agree with my Ecuadorean counterpart in) expressing our will in respect to the democratic government, in respect to the government that the Bolivian people support, and our natural rejection of violence and any separatist force that breaks the integrity of nations."
García also spoke of the need for "civilized dialogue to overcome claims and impasses."
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Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras, refused to accept credentials from the new US ambassador to his country this afternoon.
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Sean McCormack, US State Dep't Spokesperson (translated from Spanish)
"We regret the actions of Presidents Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales in expelling our ambassadors in Venezuela and Bolivia respectively. This reflects the weakness and desperation of both leaders in the face of internal challenges (to their countries)."
