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As of Monday, we have 113 additional Americans with us in Chaclacayo. Because of political unrest in our neighboring country, Bolivia, the US government decided to evacuate all of the Peace Corps Bolivia volunteers. Bolivian President Evo Morales, a good friend of Hugo Chávez, asked the US ambassador to leave Bolivia earlier this week. The US government then decided it was not safe for the PC volunteers to remain in Bolivia, as they are associated with the government. The last PC group to be evacuated was the group of volunteers in Georgia.

It’s been great to get to know these volunteers and learn about their experiences in the PC. However they all seem very stressed out right now with their current situation. It sounds like most of them will terminate their service early, although some are planning on returning to their sites and completing their projects on their own (without the support of the US government).

Here’s a link for more information (thanks aislinn!) :

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/16/bolivia.peace.corps/index.html