rebellion in Bolivia- summary of Monday events
translation | 14.10.2003 15:42 | Globalisation | Repression | World
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The number of the dead has risen to official 58, over 200 badly injured have been treated in hospitals. Tanks and other heavy military vehicles have been moved to the city centre to shoot the rebellion.
http://germany.indymedia.org/2003/10/63363.shtml The number of the dead has risen to official 58, over 200 badly injured have been treated in hospitals. Tanks and other heavy military vehicles have been moved to the city centre to shoot the rebellion.
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Partly heavy fights directly in front of the government's residence, and only with efforts and brutality the security forces were able to beat back the demonstrators.
The military and the police leadership have positioned themselves without doubt behind the government, whereas Eva Morales (president of the MAS, the biggest oppositional party) talked of "forces inside the military would be sick of the bloodshed".
Most of the rebels came on Monday from El Alto, where on Sunday the military has perpetrated a massacre which 26 people fell victim to.
In the meantime other trade union groups mobilise to La paz: The miners who slave away in the mines of the "president" Gori, demand their sozialisation.
The Coca- and Highlandfarmers, organised in the MAS (movimiento al Socialismo), have brought forward their mobilisation planned for Thursday.
Neighbourhood organisations of other parts of the city have also associated themselves with the protests. A posh shopping centre in the inner parts of the city has burst in flames, and the houses of policemen and the leader of the governing party have been attacked and partly destroyed.
Most of the unions, such as the transport workers union, have announced an unlimited general strike , and the public life in La Paz has been collapsed. Even the international airport in La Paz is affected, and more
Die meisten Gewerkschaften, wie die Transportarbeitergewerkschaft, haben einen unbefristeten Generalstreik ausgerufen, das öffentliche Leben ist in La Paz zusammengebrochen. Selbst der Internationale Flughafen in La Paz ist hiervon betroffen, immer mehr Fluggesellschaften unterbrechen ihren Flugverkehr nach Bolivien, die Britische Regierung hat vor kurzem eine Reisewarnung für dieses Land veröffentlcht.
Riots have also been announced from Cochabamba, Oruro and Potosi.
First conflicts loom in the group of the government: the vice-president has distanced himself from the government's policy and thereby 4 ministeres have resigned.
The USA and the OAS continue to support "their president", who is refered to as "The Gringo" in Bolivia, as he has spent most of his life in the USA, was educated there in neoliberal economy and posesses a huge mining imperium in Bolivia.
Following prognosis are imaginable for todays Tuesday:
1. the president resigns
2. the military and the police cause a bloodbath
3. the riots wane, as Bolivia is world champion in "almost revolutions"
sources:
http://www.bolpress.com
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/52162/1/.html
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/
The military and the police leadership have positioned themselves without doubt behind the government, whereas Eva Morales (president of the MAS, the biggest oppositional party) talked of "forces inside the military would be sick of the bloodshed".
Most of the rebels came on Monday from El Alto, where on Sunday the military has perpetrated a massacre which 26 people fell victim to.
In the meantime other trade union groups mobilise to La paz: The miners who slave away in the mines of the "president" Gori, demand their sozialisation.
The Coca- and Highlandfarmers, organised in the MAS (movimiento al Socialismo), have brought forward their mobilisation planned for Thursday.
Neighbourhood organisations of other parts of the city have also associated themselves with the protests. A posh shopping centre in the inner parts of the city has burst in flames, and the houses of policemen and the leader of the governing party have been attacked and partly destroyed.
Most of the unions, such as the transport workers union, have announced an unlimited general strike , and the public life in La Paz has been collapsed. Even the international airport in La Paz is affected, and more
Die meisten Gewerkschaften, wie die Transportarbeitergewerkschaft, haben einen unbefristeten Generalstreik ausgerufen, das öffentliche Leben ist in La Paz zusammengebrochen. Selbst der Internationale Flughafen in La Paz ist hiervon betroffen, immer mehr Fluggesellschaften unterbrechen ihren Flugverkehr nach Bolivien, die Britische Regierung hat vor kurzem eine Reisewarnung für dieses Land veröffentlcht.
Riots have also been announced from Cochabamba, Oruro and Potosi.
First conflicts loom in the group of the government: the vice-president has distanced himself from the government's policy and thereby 4 ministeres have resigned.
The USA and the OAS continue to support "their president", who is refered to as "The Gringo" in Bolivia, as he has spent most of his life in the USA, was educated there in neoliberal economy and posesses a huge mining imperium in Bolivia.
Following prognosis are imaginable for todays Tuesday:
1. the president resigns
2. the military and the police cause a bloodbath
3. the riots wane, as Bolivia is world champion in "almost revolutions"
sources:
http://www.bolpress.com http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/52162/1/.html http://bolivia.indymedia.org/
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War for Gas
15.10.2003 10:55
AP, La Paz
Tuesday October 14, 2003
The Guardian
Bolivia's president yesterday shelved plans for natural gas exports to the US and Mexico that have provoked massive, violent protests, but defiantly rejected mounting demands for his resignation.
As thousands of demonstrators marched through La Paz chanting anti-government slogans and demanding that he resign, President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada vowed "to defeat the sedition and restore order".
He called the protests in recent weeks against the gas export plan "a plot encouraged from abroad aimed at destroying Bolivia and staining our democracy with blood". At least 16 people have died in the protests.
He dismissed demands for his resignation, saying: "My government is the result of a popular election". He said that it had the support of the armed forces and police.
He accused two congressmen, Evo Morales and Felipe Quispe, the Indian leaders of the protests, of promoting the alleged plot, but at the same time he offered to negotiate a solution to the crisis with them and "with all sectors." But they rejected the offer and insisted that he must quit.
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