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Bolivia has arrested five people for allegedly coaching a boy to pretend he was President Evo Morales son, and paying his family, in a soap opera-style scandal that has riveted the country, officials said. The accused are said to be close to Gabriela Zapata -- a former girlfriend of President Evo Morale
stanley cup s, with whom he had a son who died in 2009. AFP file The boy was told his entire education would be paid for, that he would be given a plot of land, in addition to as much as USD 15,000 to the boys parents, top prosecutor Ramiro Guerrero told reporters on Saturday. The detained suspects were not immediately identified. But they are close to Gabriela Zapata -- a former girlfriend of the single president, with whom he had a son who died in 2009 -- Guerrero said. They were charged with conspiracy, people trafficking and blocking the execution of government obligations. Morales, Bolivias first indigenous president
stanley cup , acknowledged he had a child with Zapata, but said the boy di
stanley cup ed soon after birth. Zapata had insisted he was alive before recently changing her story. A former manager at Chinese engineering group CAMC, Zapata, 28, has been accused of using her ties to the president to land USD 560 million in government contracts for the company. The case exploded onto the political scene just as Bolivia prepared to hold a referendum on whether to change the constitution to allow Morales, 56, to run for a fourth term. Morales, who has been in office since 2006, went on to l Rqml Teen cancels Facebook party with 200,000 guests
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jordan rlusconi won back-to-back votes of confidence in the Italian parliament Tuesday, but he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hard for him to govern effectively. HT Image In the second and most dramatic of the tests, Berlusconi survived a no-confidence motion in the lower house by just three votes. The tense session was briefly interrupted as lawmakers pushed and shoved each other, while outside parliament protesters hurling firecrackers, eggs and paint scuffled with police. Earlier in the day, Berlusconi had secured a more comfortable victory in a confidence vote at the Senate. The votes were called following a spate of sex scandals and a breakup with one-time close ally Gianfranco Fini, who had urged Berlusconi to resign and had hoped to bring him down through the no-confidence motion. The outcome then marked a victory for Berlusconi over the man who had become his most bitter rival. By contrast, it dealt a blow to Fini s ambitions to replace Berlusconi as conservative leader, at least in the short term. Ironically, it was Fini in his capacity as speaker of the lower house who announced the result: 314-311 in favor of the government. Applause broke out and Fini quickly ended the session without comment.
stanley cup However, the political future remains uncertain as Berlusconi can no longer count on a solid majority in parliament. Tuesday s victory was obtained thanks to the votes of a handful of swing lawmakers who changed their minds at the
