CARACAS, Monday December 03, 2007 | Update
Bolivian daily newspapers Monday devoted headlines and published
special reports about the defeat of President Hugo Chávez's
intended constitutional reform.
Daily newspaper La Razón's first-page headline read, "No-bloc
wins in Venezuela and Chávez admits his defeat," stressing
this is the first electoral setback for Chávez in nine
years.
La Prensa reported, "Chávez loses and his Constitution
is not given green light." This daily newspaper, in a four-page
special supplement, stressed that Chávez lost to "the
new opposition and the mobilization of university students."
04:20 PM. Western Hemisphere. Colombian President Álvaro Uribe said on Tuesday that governments should ensure citizens' rights to live on the border, in reference to a political and diplomatic crisis with Venezuela and its effects on border residents.