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AFP: Evo Calls to Blockade Congress in Sucre

Submitted June 8, 2005 - 3:32 pm by Al Giordano
Hormando Vaca Diez's plan to hold a session of the Bolivian Congress tomorrow in Sucre, rather than the legislative capital of La Paz, has reportedly hit a speedbump.

Agence France Press reports:

(AFP) Opposition leader Evo Morales on Wednesday called upon Quechua (Bolivia's second largest indigenous ethnic group) peasant farmers to block the installation of Congress in the city of Sucre (740 kilometers from La Paz), where the resignation of President Carlos Mesa and the assent of his succesor that have convulsed Bolivia are to be decided.

Morales said that the blockades of the route surrounding this lower Andean city, where the country was founded 180 years ago, will be hardened to stop the rise of Congress President Hormando Vaca Diez.

Vaca Diez, first in line in the Constitutional succession, called the Congress to a plenary session in Sucre at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, in spite of the opposition by social movements in La Paz.

"Not one compañero is going to lift the road blockades in the interior of the country," the coca growers leader warned...

According to Morales, mineworkers (of nearby regions) where in 1996 eleven indigenous were killed by the military are now headed toward Sucre.

According to the leader of the powerful One Union Confederation of Bolivia Farm Workers, Roman Loayza, who is close to Morales, some 2,000 Quechua campesinos have left from the neighboring state of of Cochabamba toward Sucre...

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