Bolivia’s new president, Carlos Mesa, is scrambling to assemble a Cabinet following his rise to power; the mood is festive in La Paz.
Reuters says: “Bolivia’s new president was forming his Cabinet on Sunday as support grew from key power brokers, including some Indian groups that led a bloody popular revolt that toppled his predecessor.”
Another Reuters dispatch says former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada is trying to get over his “shock and shame” at being kicked out of office. And Al Giordano takes the US governement to task for sheltering “Goni The Butcher.” (For more info, check out Andres Oppenheimer’s account of what the ousted president had to say just after arriving in Miami.)
ABC News tells us people are happy in the Andean capital: “Tear-gas and bullets have been replaced with smiles and celebrations, La Paz airport has reopened and streets are being cleared.”
And finally, for a sense of how the Indigenous parties feel about Goni fleeing, take a gander at this illustration (and read the corresponding article in Spanish, if you’re so inclined).