Today's Session of Bolivian Congress Suspended by Vaca Diez

We said so a few hours ago: that the Congressional session in Sucre to consider President Carlos Mesa’s resignation was not going to happen. A few minutes ago, Senator Hormando Vaca Diez, president of the Congress, suspended all legislative work, without any date or time given to resume it, faced with the situation in the Bolivian capital. This could be the end of Hormando Vaca Diez’s political career, and who knows what else. A contingent of peasant farmers has reached the outside of the Sucre airport and announced that they will not permit any member of Congress to leave the city.

The first confrontations have already begun in Sucre. The mineworkers and students of Sucre are now combating the police near Plaza 25 de Mayo. The uniformed officers are responding with tear gas and with bullets fired at those setting off dynamite.

And while throughout the entire country, hunger strikes grow against the possible presidency of Hormando Vaca Diez, he suspended the session and ran away to hide.