Facebook bans anti-Evo Morales group

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Facebook, the Internet social network, is back in the political headlines again -- this time concerning Bolivia’s president Evo Morales.

The Associated Press reports that a Facebook group apparently aimed at raising money to ‘liquidate’ Bolivia’s left-leaning Morales was removed by the site on Tuesday.

AP reports that the group -- called ‘Global collection to hire a sharpshooter to liquidate Evo Morales’ -- stated that ‘we need to get the money to inspire someone to do it.’

A Facebook spokeswoman, Jaime Schopflin, said the group clearly violated the company’s terms of use.

Facebook hit the headlines earlier this month after a Uruguayan politician posted a photo of herself in the shower on her page on the network, upsetting opposition members. Read that story here.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City