Ex-Bolivian President On Fox 31 Show Bars Tough Questions

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Erin Rosa
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You’re a former South American head of state who has been exiled by a popular uprising. You have been accused of murder by various human rights groups. You live a comfortable life in the United States away from pending legal actions in your former homeland.

What do you do next?

Apparently, one answer is to appear on nighttime news programs in local areas to talk politics, as happened more than a week ago when former Bolivian President Gonzalo “Goni” S

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Erin Rosa was born in Spain and raised in Colorado Springs. She is a freelance writer currently living in Denver. Rosa's work has been featured in a variety of news outlets including the Huffington Post, Democracy Now!, and the Rocky Mountain Chronicle, an alternative-weekly in Northern Colorado where she worked as a columnist covering the state legislature. Rosa has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting on lobbying and woman's health issues. She was also tapped with a rare honorable mention award by the Newspaper Guild-CWA's David S. Barr Award in 2008--only the second such honor conferred in its nine-year history--for her investigative series covering the federal government's Supermax prison in the state. Rosa covers the labor community, corrections, immigration and government transparency matters. She can be reached at erosa@www.coloradoindependent.com.

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