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SANTIAGO, Chile — South American presidents met Monday hoping to prevent a political collapse in Bolivia, where the government planned to charge a rebellious eastern governor with genocide for allegedly ordering the machine-gunning of peasants.
Bolivia’s leftist president, Evo Morales, arrived at the hastily called summit having effectively lost control of half of his country. Anti-Morales demonstrators have blocked highways, taken over government offices, closed border crossings and sabotaged pipelines.
Bolivia’s chief prosecutor, Mario Uribe, said he would charge Gov. Leopoldo Fernandez and other top officials in Pando with genocide for provoking “a bloody massacre” of 15 in political violence last week.
