To understand Bolivian sensitivities to U.S. aid and its conditions, as well as concerns regarding U.S. intervention, it is important to look at what happened to Bolivia's first leftist government, which governed back in the 1950s.
Both governing parties back an amendment to the constitution to bar the federal government from running big deficits in most circumstances (and state governments from incurring any at all) after 2016.
That will help Mr Trudeau in his drive to bring the Liberals, who once saw themselves as Canada's natural governing party, back to prominence.
Mr Blatter must be hoping that once this year's World Cup gets under way on June 12th, attention will shift from the ugly dealings in football's governing body back to the beautiful game itself.
The governing majority, backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia, has failed during two months of haggling to reach a deal with the opposition, backed by Syria and Iran.
About a quarter of the Anglican church's governing body backed the proposal, under which vicars would be able to wear ordinary clothes if their bishop and church council agreed.
The anti-doping commission of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, track and field's world governing body, backed off threats to suspend C.J. Hunter yesterday, but pressed United States officials to take action soon in his drug case.
By a vote of 155 to five, with 40 abstentions, soccer's governing body backed further discussion of Sepp Blatter's "6+5″ plan limiting the number of foreign players on club teams.
The governing African National Congress backed away Tuesday from disciplining Zwelinzima Vavi, leader of Cosatu, the powerful trade union federation, but scolded Mr. Vavi for "alien behavior" for publicly accusing two A.N.C. government ministers of corruption, saying he had unfairly dragged their names "through the mud".
