Unidentified man attacks
Bolivian private TV station
An unidentified man attacked a
Bolivian private television
station in downtown La Paz with
dynamite in the early hours of
Wednesday, but there were no
injuries, reports from Bolivia
said.
The TV station is affiliated to
Bolivian President Carlos Mesa.
The dynamite used in the attack
was not powerful and there were
no people around the TV station
at the time when it exploded.
The attack was one of the series
erupted in recent days, police
said, adding that its aim is to
provoke disorder and panic in
Bolivia. On Monday a bomb
exploded outside a soldiers'
club just several hours before
President Mesa visited this
club. There were no injuries in
the explosion.
Police said they were
investigating these explosions.
Mesa came to power in October
2003 after riots ousted
president Gonzalo Sanchez de
Lozada.
Rumsfeld urges closer
anti-terror cooperation in
Americas
United States Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday
urged the countries in the
Americas to strengthen
cooperation in the fight against
terrorism.
The American countries should
improve their military and
police cooperation in the combat
against terrorism, the secretary
said at the sixth Conference of
Defense Ministers of the
Americas in Quito.
The continent must stand
together and work harder to
prevent terrorist activities in
the region and in the United
States, Rumsfeld said.
The new threats of the 21st
century do not recognize
borders. Terrorists, drug
pushers, kidnappers and criminal
gangs form an anti-social
combination and increasingly
seek to destabilize the civil
societies, he said, adding these
enemies often find shelters in
border areas beyond the reach of
government.
"No nation could face these new
challenges by itself," Rumsfeld
said.
The three-day conference of
defense ministers started
Wednesday with the participation
of 150 delegates from 34
countries.
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Jail riot leaves three dead,
seven injured in Venezuela
A riot started in the early
hours of Wednesday here at the
El Rodeo II jail, leaving three
people dead and seven injured,
an official from the Interior
and Justice Ministry said.
Erly Rojas, general director of
custody and rehabilitation of
the ministry said inmate-gangs
quarreled for the control of the
jail and the cause of fight was
possibly an order Tuesday by
authorities in all prisons to
seize stabbing weapons and fire
arms.
Although the fight started in
the early hours of Wednesday,
theN ational Guardsmen could not
enter into the jail until
morning, because it was
dangerous to proceed with
operations inside the
penitentiary centers in the
dark, Rojas added.
Rojas said the situation now was
under control. Officials of the
ministry and prosecutors of the
Attorney General's office made
an inspection of the spot,
trying to find perpetrators in
the jail.
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