Government: Workshop a front for U.S. spies
Bolivia ? Students attending a conflict resolution course in this politically tumultuous Andean nation received some unexpected extracurricular experience when Bolivia’s leftist government accused the program’s sponsor of being a fraont for U.S. spies.
The accusations came in a six-page Bolivian intelligence report riddled with grammatical errors. It claimed one of the course’s local coordinators is a CIA agent.
The report was sent to reporters by e-mail Thursday, two days after President Evo Morales claimed U.S. troops were sneaking into Bolivia disguised as students and tourists.
Morales’ charges come amid increasingly strained U.S.-Bolivian relations. Morales is getting cozier with Venezuela and Cuba and shunning U.S. diplomats ahead of a July 2 vote to elect an assembly that will rewrite the constitution.
The U.S. Embassy called the government’s accusations “unfounded.”

