Bolivia's U.S. Envoy a Rebellious Choice

Gustavo Guzman, the new Bolivian ambassador to the United States is seen at the end of a interview with the Associated Press in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 11,2006. Bolivia's unlikely new ambassador to the United States, a career journalist with no previous diplomatic experience, woke one morning this spring to a telephone summons from President Evo Morales, a famously early riser. Sitting in the presidential palace an hour later, Guzman was dumbfounded when the president asked him to serve as his country's representative in Washington. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)
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Whereas the US ambassador to Bolivia was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia from 1965-67 and speaks Spanish. However, this still has an air of Bolivia not being flavour of the month. They have natural resources and don't want them exploited.
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