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El Alto on the move again

Submitted June 3, 2005 - 9:32 pm by Luis Gomez
A few minutes ago, the leaders of the El Alto Federation of Neighborhood Committees (FEJUVE) finished a tour through the districts of El Alto. Every one of the eight districts has held assemblies this afternoon. But the most important one finished a few minutes ago in Disritct 8, where the Senkata gasoline plant, which provides fuel for La Paz and El Alto, is located.

The residents of that area, in the south of El Alto and a few kilometers from the entrance to La Paz, have decided to completely close all access to the Senkata plant and install a permanet guard to ensure that “as long as the hydrocarbons are not nationalized,” not one drop of gasoline makes it out. If necessary, District 4 (neighboring District 8 to the south) has resolved to mobilize and support such measures.

Abel Mamani, president of FEJUVE, came out to congratulate El Alto residents for their continued resistance. Aside from the gasoline plant, District 8 has shut down an international highway. Before retiring for the evening, Mamani confirmed that El Alto will once again take downtown La Paz next Monday…

As you seem, kind readers, this is a response as well to Carlos Mesa, to the Congress, and to the decree on the constitutional assembly… because until now, the principal popular demand, nationalization, is yet to be resolved…

Stay with us, our dear and weary readers, history keeps leaping forward in Bolivia…

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