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AMERICAN BAPTIST NEWS SERVICE 
Office of Communication  
American Baptist Churches USA 
P.O. Box 851, Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851 
Phone: (610)768-2077 / Fax: (610)768-2320 
Web: www.abc-usa.org
Richard W. Schramm, Director 
 E-mail: richard.schramm@abc-usa.org

MISSIONARIES SAFE AS TURMOIL CONTINUES IN BOLIVIA 
 American Baptist missionaries in Bolivia are reported 
safe as civil unrest there continues.   
 The country's largest union has called for a nation-
wide strike today in response to President Hugo Banzer's 90-
day state of emergency decree.  Last week peasant unions, in 
protest against a possible substantial increase in water 
prices, set road blocks on several national highways in five 
of the nine provinces.  The protests resulted in a series of 
violent incidents that has claimed at least five lives. 
 American Baptist missionaries Evelyn and Omar Almonte 
in Santa Cruz and Mario and Iris Morales in Cochabamba are 
said to be safe as long as they remain in their homes.  
Although mass communications in Bolivia now have been 
affected, Omar Almonte was able to contact International 
Ministries and request prayers for their safety and for the 
situation in Bolivia. 
 
4/12/00
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