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Ensures Referendum Poll
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Bolivia Government
Ensures Referendum Poll
La Paz - The Bolivian
government offered today
guarantees for the
development of the
nationwide referendum on
the land and the new
constitutional text,
slated for January 25,
2009.
According to Foreign
Minister David
Choquehuanca, those
conditions will also be
given in the northern
department of Pando, in
state of siege since
September 11 after a
massacre of land
laborers.
The FM advanced that
next Wednesday, the
cabinet will assess
setting a date to lift
the exception state in
the Amazonic region of
Pando, where the
prefecture carried out a
massacre of land
laborers that left 18
dead and over 100
missing persons.
According to the
election calendar, the
campaign for the Yes or
No to the new Charter
will start on November
23 through January 22
next year.
Previously, the
Executive had explained
the decree on the state
of siege in Pando had
responded to the crimes
of lesser humanity
organized by criminal
groups.
Also, the climate in
that region was of
internal commotion, as
order and peace were
altered besides road
blockages and damage to
public property.
On this issue, the
minister of Defense,
Walker San Miguel
explained to Prensa
Latina that the armed
forces and the nacional
police were torced to
Project institutions and
constitutional order in
Pando, something that
the population still
demands.
San Miguel also
described as illegal the
recent rulings of the
Penal Court in
Chuquisaca which seek to
favor the ex prefect of
Pando, Leopoldo
Fernandez, under arrest
in La Paz, accused of
murder and terrorism.
He also dismissed that
Fernandez could be
transferred to Sucre to
be traed, after the
habeas corpus resource
presented, as it is a
maneuver to set him
free, he affirmed.
San Miguel announced the
beginning of a trial for
traffic of influences,
malfeasance and
unconstitutional deeds
as well as legal norms
against councillors of
Chuquisaca, Osvaldo Fong
and Elena Lowental. |
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