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Bolivia Calls Campesinos to Arms
The Bolivian government has
urged campesinos to take up arms
if necessary in defense of the
ongoing process of changes amid
diverse political and social
conflicts shaking the nation.
Wednesday, Acting President
Alvaro Garcia made the
exhortation in the locality of
Warisata during the
commemoration of the third
anniversary of the first six
deaths of the killing ordered by
former president Gonzalo Sanchez
de Lozada to crack down on a
social protest.
The call comes amid conflict and
pressure by conservative,
regional and political forces
for the Constituent Assembly to
make decisions by two thirds.
"We must continue fighting and
mobilizing to guarantee the
Constituent Assembly, the
hydrocarbons nationalization,
the trial of Sanchez de Lozada,
currently in the US, for
genocide and the redistribution
of lands," Linera pointed out.
His speech was immediately
jumped upon by the opposition,
among them Deputy Peter
Maldonado, from the National
Union group, who said the vice
president had riled people up
and created an improper scenario
to negotiate with transnationals.
The Bolivian Executive is
parleying with those companies
over new operation contracts in
line with the nationalization
and the preeminence of the state
hydrocarbons firm.
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