Thousands march in support of Bolivia's Morales

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Thousands march in support of Bolivia's Morales
Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:36 PM EST

By Eduardo Garcia

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Bolivian leader Evo Morales marched through the streets of La Paz on Wednesday shouting slogans against the opposition, days after Morales' foes called for "civil disobedience" in the regions they govern.

The march of mostly Aymara Indians from the city of El Alto -- a Morales stronghold near Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz -- came as the leftist leader faces increasing pressure from the rightist opposition against his mining and land reforms.

Morales, the South American country's first president of indigenous descent, controls the central government but the opposition rules in five of Bolivia's nine provinces, and they demand more autonomy and a larger share of state revenue.

Earlier this week, opposition leaders called for "civil disobedience" in the regions they govern, and Morales responded by calling them "seditious."

The conservative opposition also controls the Senate, which Morales has accused of blocking nearly a hundred bills approved by the lower chamber, where his party enjoys a comfortable majority.



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[provis99]

1. How long before the DU libertarians say Morales=Chavez?

First Chavez is the most evil man since Hitler, and now with Morales squabbling with the landowners in the provinces and Senate, they will accuse him of being dictatorial, too.

[Judi Lynn]

2. They loved Hugo Banzer and the other European-descended dictators who controlled Bolivia,

shutting down elections, "disappearing" people, torturing and imprisoning people, even driving Native citizens off their land, and giving that land to the white Africans they were luring to Bolivia in hopes of setting up a larger ruling class.

Those guys could do no wrong with the American right wing, although they were loathed and naturally feared by the majority of Bolivians.

They enabled the American-based multinationals to rape and pillage the country, paying almost NOTHING for their savage exploitation, while kicking back enough to bribe Bolivian officials well enough to keep them in their pockets. Old story, been done TO DEATH over and over again.

Do you think any of this will ever get covered if Lynne Cheney does a history primer on Latin America?

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