Bolivia's New President Swears In

World | June 10, 2005, Friday // 00:00

The head of Bolivia's Supreme Court - Eduardo Rodriguez - has been sworn in as interim president to succeed the outgoing Carlos Mesa. Mesa offered to resign after weeks of crippling street protests that threatened to paralyze the South American country. Troops shot and killed a protester on Thursday. The job of interim president automatically went to Rodriguez after two congressional leaders, who were first and second in line for the post, turned it down. Elections are expected in the next three to six months. Mesa's term was to have ended in August 2007.

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