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Bolivia Natives March for Land
Law
Bolivian indigenous people
restarted a walk towards La Paz
Friday, demanding the approval
of a new land law, while
traditional parties in the
Bolivian east announced actions
against governmental measures.
Adolfo Chavez, president of the
Indigenous Confederation of the
East, said the protest calls for
the Senate to approve the law,
which has been at a deadlock due
to inflexible stances by the
opposition.
Other native leaders announced
the protest could arrive Monday
in La Paz, where they will
gather for a vigil at Murillo
Plaza.
Grassroots organizations and
farmers federations have joined
the walk, along which members of
the Constituent Assembly have
informed marchers on the forum s
sessions, obstructed by actions
of minority forces interested in
delaying the writing of the
future Constitution.
In the meantime, opposition
members of the so called Santa
Cruz Assembly began a hunger
strike, likely to be massive, as
the first regional measure
against the governmental
decisions on the new land law.
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