Norris's books provoked a good deal of public outrage, to which Norris responded coolly and disdainfully: “What do I care for their opinions? I never truckled. I told them the truth.”
Bolivia said some diplomats have already presented their official versions for the incident, which has caused anger in Bolivia. Outside the US embassy in La Paz, hundreds of protesters demanded its closure.
In a separate development, the Colorado governor has also shortened a truck driver's prison sentence for causing a deadly highway pileup, after his original 110-year sentence drew public outrage.