BOLIVIA RECALL: President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia’s nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will survive a referendum whose rules tilt in the populist leader’s favor. “Personally, I have no fear of the people,” Morales said.
RUSSIA SUSPECT: Russian investigators on Monday named the man they suspect of killing journalist Anna Politkovskaya, gunned down in Moscow in 2006. Authorities said Rustam Makhmudov, a 34-year-old Chechen, was “the immediate executor of the murder” and that he remains at large.
MEXICO HIT: A federal official Monday said the Sinaloa cartel ordered the killing of Mexico’s acting federal police chief. Police coordinator Gerardo Garay said the cartel’s Beltran Leyva brothers hired a gang led by a corrupt federal highway police officer to kill Edgar Millan Gomez.
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