Bolivian police break up plot to kill president »
Posted By dissent 7 months, 1 week ago in NewsBolivia's President Evo Morales said police in his country on Thursday broke up a plot by foreign mercenaries to kill him, suggesting that right-wing opponents were behind it.
In La Paz, Bolivian police said that three people were shot to death and two detained in the eastern city of Santa Cruz when police raided a downtown hotel in search of a "terrorist group."
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"They are foreign mercenaries -- they are Irish, Hungarians and of course there are no Bolivians," he said.
Police in La Paz, however, said some Bolivians were involved, and Vice President Alvaro Garcia said at a news conference that the foreigners involved were Croats and Irish.
Officials said the government had documents showing that the opposition governor of Santa Cruz, Ruben Costas, also was a target of the plot along with Morales and Garcia.
"What must be done is to find out who financed this group of terrorist mercenaries," Garcia said.
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