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Bolivia: the "Gringo" kills, the people resist
Por translated by Zapata - Sunday, Sep. 21, 2003 at 2:41 AM

On saturday, a combined operation by the bolivian military and police has led to the killing of at least 5 Aymaran peasants in Achacachi when the so-called "caravan of rescue", commanded by defense minister Calrlos Sanchez Berzaín, tried to run the blockades that were put up some days ago in the region of the plateau.

All this took place in the context of a national uproar
caused by the plans of president of Bolivia, the "gringo"
Sanchez de Lozada, to hand out the gas to the transnational
companies.

The Aymaran farmers also were also demanding the fulfillment
of 72 points agreed with the government during 2001.
Furthermore they requested the release of a leader accused
of murder for his participation in an act of community
justice. Some leaders of the Pachakutik indigenious movement
(MIP), who were in a hunger strike over the same issues,
have returned to their communities to organize and to
radicalize their ways of protest.

For their part, the town of Sorata is taken by the
demonstrators, who have burned the local facilities of the
government and the police station. A day earlier, on the the
19th of september, in the whole country 150,000 people went
to the streets in response to the government plans.

The protests were called for by a new organizacion, the
"Coordinator of the Gas", which consists of a diverse group
of unions and social movements from all over Bolivia.
Bolivia has the second largest gas reserves in latin america
(after Venezuela), and is therefore a cherished prey for
those who want to continue controlling and appropriating the
natural resources of others.

Yesterday the gold and the silver of the Potosí plateau
went, with miners dying in the excavations and the money
traveling to the other end of the world. Today they want to
go further and deeper.

From our place, we greet the Bolivian people, and especially
our brothers and sisters of Indymedia La Paz, who yesterday
had to cope with being arrested while they covered the
protests and took part in them. Jallalla friends!

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