bolsheviki
7th June 2005, 15:57
FLASH 10 p.m. Bolivian President Carlos Mesa just submitted his resignation in the face of mass protests. Who will succeed him is an open question, supposedly to be resolved tomorrow by the Bolivian Congress. Mesa governed for 19 months after taking over from the previous president, Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada. That mass murderer was driven out by a workers uprising against the bloody repression he unleashed attempting to crush protests against his deals with a multinational gas cartel. Since then the political, social and economic crisis has only escalated. Today a huge march of workers, peasants and slum dwellers occupied the center of the capital, already cut off by road blockades that have shut access to the city. Mesas resignation is a demonstration of the incapacity of Bolivias ruling class to resolve the basic problems facing this impoverished Andean country. If the rightist head of Congress is named his successor, mass outrage will escalate further. The threat of a military coup is real. The only solution: Obreros al poder Workers to power!
LA PAZ, 6 JUNEAl parlamento hay que cerrarlo, a los corruptos hay que colgarlos: We have to close down parliament and hang those crooks, Aymara Indians sang in todays enormous demonstration. Theirs was one of the seemingly endless columns of marchers pouring down from the slums of El Alto into the center of the Bolivian capital. Mesa y Goni, el mismo engao, leyes malditos han firmado, they continued, to the tune of an Andean huayo: Mesa and Goni, the same trickery, signing accursed laws. Carlos Mesa, the current president, is the successor to Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada (Goni), who unleashed massive repression in a failed attempt to crush the upheaval of October 2003.
[Click here for eyewitness report] (http://www.internationalist.org/lapazeyewitness050606.html)
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LA PAZ, 6 JUNEAl parlamento hay que cerrarlo, a los corruptos hay que colgarlos: We have to close down parliament and hang those crooks, Aymara Indians sang in todays enormous demonstration. Theirs was one of the seemingly endless columns of marchers pouring down from the slums of El Alto into the center of the Bolivian capital. Mesa y Goni, el mismo engao, leyes malditos han firmado, they continued, to the tune of an Andean huayo: Mesa and Goni, the same trickery, signing accursed laws. Carlos Mesa, the current president, is the successor to Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada (Goni), who unleashed massive repression in a failed attempt to crush the upheaval of October 2003.
[Click here for eyewitness report] (http://www.internationalist.org/lapazeyewitness050606.html)
http://www.internationalist.org/lapazmanifestacion050606binter.jpg