A worsening five-year political crisis in Bolivia reached a precarious impasse on Wednesday , with left - and right-wing adversaries so polarized that the departing president , Carlos Mesa , warned his country to step back from the brink of civil war .
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Carlos Mesa
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Bolivia
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