The government of Bolivia's leftist president Evo Morales and several provincial governors opposed to redistributions of land and natural gas revenues have exchanged blame for Thursday's violence in the remote Pando region.
Up to 26 people were killed. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous Indian president, said he would not deviate from his reform plan while his interior minister Alfredo Rado accused Pando's governor of "orchestrating" the killings of pro-government peasants. That's been rejected by Governor Leopoldo Fernandez. Three other anti-Morales governors have said they will visit Pando this Sunday. Leaders of neighbouring Latin American nations, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, have backed Morales. An emergency summit of the Union of South American Nations, has been scheduled for Monday in Chile.
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