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Bolivia's Interim President Cancels Trip Due to 'Credible Threat' as Crisis
Roars On

Reuters

   LA PAZ - Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Anez was forced to suspend
   a trip out of the capital La Paz planned for Monday, a government
   spokesman said, after a threat on her life by a "criminal group."

   Anez, 52, had been due to travel to her native Beni province in
   northeastern Bolivia but the trip was canceled because of a credible
   threat, Interior Minister Arturo Murillo said at a news conference in
   La Paz.

   Murillo said Venezuelans, Cubans, and Colombians were "involved,"
   without giving further details. Anez's government on Friday asked
   Venezuelan officials to leave the country and accused Cuba of stoking
   unrest.

   Both Cuba and Venezuela were close allies of socialist former president
   Evo Morales, who stepped down last week amid violent protests and
   accusations of vote-rigging in an Oct. 20 presidential election. An
   Organization of American States audit found irregularities in the vote.

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