Bolivian Campesinos Announce Extension of Hunger Strike Across the Country

[magbana]

Bolivian Campesinos Announced Extension of the Hunger Strike Across the Country

La Paz, (RHC)-The national leader of the Bolivian Campesino Workers Union Remigio Mendoza, said on Saturday that the hunger strike has extended throughout the country after the opposition pledged in blocking the electoral law dictated by the Constitution.

The leader told the press that they will not lift the pressure, on the contrary, there will be more people supporting President Evo Morales.

According to Mendoza, there is a growing number of people joining in the hunger strike in the country´s nine departments.

"We have instructed our territorial federations to join the hunger strike to confront" what he characterized as treason against the homeland on behalf of opposition deputies and senators who abandoned their attempts to look for a concensus in the parliament.

Mendoza added that he respects President Evo Morales' reqauest to temporarily stop the measure until Sunday due to Easter Sunday celebrations.

The Bolivian Head of State requested on Friday for the hunger strikers to halt the fast and enjoy alongside their family Easter Sunday, although he explained that he will coninue as long as the right wing continues to boycott the norms destined at ruling the general elections for December and the regional elections for April of 2010.

The union leader also stressed that a legal action will be taken against the opposition parliamentarians that refuse to present themselves this weekend at El Hemiciclo, where the Socialist Movement awaits them to resume the analysis of the electoral law."
http://www.rhc.cu/ingles/noticias/abril09/abril11/mundo1.htm

[rabs]

1. Morales cancels trip to ALBA and summit of the Americas

Sunday, fifth day of hunger strike. If this impasse in La Paz continues, what are hemisphere leaders going to say with one of their own on a hunger strike for democracy? Another little problem for Obama and Hillary.

Morales: "Bolivia is first."


La Paz, 12 abr (ABI) - El presidente boliviano Evo Morales, en huelga de hambre hace cinco días en demanda de una nueva ley electoral, suspendió sus viajes oficiales a Venezuela y Trinidad y Tobago, sedes de las cumbres de la Alternativa Bolivariana para Latinoamérica y El Caribe (ALBA) y de Las Américas respectivamente, entre el 16 y el 19 de abril, atingido por la situación política en Bolivia, informó en una entrevista el domingo a la radio y televisión estatales.

"Primero es Bolivia. Yo tenía cita con usted y con muchos presidentes del ALBA el día 16. Después, en la cumbre de Las Américas, pero decidí no viajar", dijo durante una conversación telefónica transmitida al vivo con su par venezolano Hugo Chávez, este último en Caracas.

http://abi.bo/index.php?i=noticias_texto_paleta&j=20090412154723&l=200809150033

[Judi Lynn]

2. Very worthy idea, isn't it? They protest the murderous greedy minority

which was bolstered and coached by the _Bush regime with U.S. taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars, and secret meetings with them by Philip Greenberg after midnight when they thought no one would know, and secret flights to Washington to confer with his people.

It's truly time to get this dirty business out where it can be acknowledged, and admitted, or repudiated. No time like the present. Good for Morales. People of good will can only hope the best for him and the people of Bolivia.

[magbana]

3. Rabs, I agree with your comment n/t

[Bacchus39]

4. how is this a problem for Obama?? n/t

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