Reply #17: Bolivia: "a country where Indians were banned from walking on the sidewalk until 1952 "

[Judi Lynn]

I had to repeat that sentence from the article. Something went wrong when I posted it and the date was missing. Had to make sure people could read this in its accurate form.

That doesn't speak well for the invading European class in Bolivia. Let me remind you of Bolivia's LOATHESOME immediate past:

COLONEL HUGO BANZER
President of Bolivia
In 1970, in Bolivia, when then-President Juan Jose Torres nationalized Gulf Oil properties and tin mines owned by US interests, and tried to establish friendly relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union, he was playing with fire. The coup to overthrow Torres, led by US-trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary Hugo Banzer, had direct support from Washington. When Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications, US Air Force radio was placed at their disposal. Once in power, Banzer began a reign of terror. Schools were shut down as hotbeds of political subversive activity. Within two years, 2,000 people were arrested and tortured without trial. As in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, the native Indians were ordered off their land and deprived of tribal identity. Tens-of-thousands of white South Africans were enticed to immigrate with promises of the land stolen from the Indians, with a goal of creating a white Bolivia. When Catholic clergy tried to aid the Indians, the regime, with CIA help, launched terrorist attacks against them, and this "Banzer Plan" became a model for similar anti-Catholic actions throughout Latin America.
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html



Hugo Banzer is the one who, in being restored to Bolivia's Presidency at a later date, threw wide open the doors to privatization of Bolivians' water, which became controlled by a subsidiary of Bechtel. This company charged Bollivian citizens FOR RAIN WATER they collected in vessels on their own property.

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Sharpshooter enlisted to slaughter protesting Bolivians

When a peaceful march was attempted, President Hugo Banzer summoned the police. They arrested protest leaders from their beds in the dark of night, shut down radio stations, and sent soldiers firing into the street . During two days of repression and tear gas attacks 175 people were injured. The people of Cochabamba made it clear they had reached their limit. When they refused to retreat, the Bolivian government declared a "state of siege". After four days of strikes Bolivian government officials were forced to nullify the contract they had signed last year.
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http://1worldcommunication.org/documentaryonbolivia.htm