#BOLIVIA: Gov't Official Says Socialist Pty Members Who Don't Campaign For the Pty "Should Be Shot"

[world politics news]

Interior Vice Minister Jorge Pérez, a senior Bolivian official, suggested on local radio that party members who fail to campaign for the ruling Movement Towards Socialism in regional elections this month should be executed. "Traitors should be shot," he said. "It’s a shame that we’re not allowed to do it."