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Bolivian
Cocaleros
Call
for
Pause
in
Blockades
12/14/01
Amidst cries for the vengeance of the deaths
of seven former coca growers at the hands of Bolivian security forces in
recent weeks, the federations of coca growers met in Cochabamba on Tuesday
and called for a temporary pause in road blockades until after the Christmas
holiday, Narco News reported from the scene.
But the recent killings by the security
forces, particularly the assassination last week of Six Federations leader
Casimiro Huanca in the Chapare (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/214.html#cocacrisis),
have left the cocaleros in no mood to talk. Instead, they are demanding
the government killers be brought to justice and the coca eradication program
stopped. Plan Dignity, as the eradication program is known, was imposed
by former dictator-turned-President Banzer under severe US pressure and
has been enthusiastically continued by his successor, Pres. Jaime Quiroga.
"You have heard the references to a 7-0
score here," Congressman Evo Morales said, announcing the halt. "Many
want vengeance. However, we are announcing the suspension of our
blockades of the highways until December 29th, for the Christmas season.
The government tells us it wants to dialogue again. But there can
be no dialogue while the assassins walk free. There can be no dialogue
while the eradication of coca continues. We've been very patient
people. We want justice not only in the case of compañero
Huanca, but in the assassinations of all seven farmers killed in these
months."
Visit http://narconews.com/warlog.html
for on-the-scene reports by Narco News, updated daily. Visit http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/boliviawar/
to protest the US-driven policies that fostered this crisis.
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Issue #215, 12/14/01
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