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The Right Would Make Vaca Diez President

Submitted June 7, 2005 - 10:07 pm by Luis Gomez
This afternoon the leaders of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) and the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) parties, the same who made the Sánchez de Lozada administration possible three years ago, are now speaking the same language: they are thinking of handing power to the coup-plotting Senate president, Hormando Vaca Diez.. with this, they say, they hope to maintain a legal framework, if they can even meet, of course.

It is just after 6:15 p.m. in La Paz, the people are already more relaxed and the clashes have ended for today, or so it seems. But the right-wing succession pact could even further unleash the power of the social movements.

Even Evo Morales, who together with his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party has maintained a “legalist” position, has now announced that this development will be answered by an endless mobilization, to continue until Vaca Diez is gone.

The right seems to have lost its fear for now, and is reforming the coalition that brought this country the massacres of October 2003 and the popular insurrection that ut short Sánchez de Lozada’s second term.

Don’t be surprised, kind readers, by this new play by the political parties. This afternoon, U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack demanded that the Bolivians reach an solution that is “peaceful, democratic, and constitutional to these tensions”…

In these moments, this can be nothing but support for the Bolivian politicians, for them to continue usurping the political representation of the people who are fighting in the streets…

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