Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert Politician, historian and President of Bolivia from October 17, 2003 until his resignation on June 6, 2005. Mesa was a popular television journalist and personality, known by many for his rectitude and impartiality but loathed by many others for alleged political opportunism. His widespread name recognition prompted the MNR candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to pick him as his running mate in the 2002 Bolivian presidential elections. Wikipedia
At the end of the conflict, Sanchez de Lozada fled the country, leaving the administration in the hands of Vice President Carlos Mesa. www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Dangl0608.htm
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