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magbana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-29-08 09:55 PM
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Bolivian Students Against Autonomy Referendum
Bolivia Students against Referendum

La Paz, Apr 29 (Prensa Latina) Over 200 youth in Santa Cruz, in eastern Bolivia, will march against the autonomy referendum convened by local authorities and for national unity.

Jhonatan Marquina, member of Santa Cruz Youth Coordinating Committee, said they reject the referendum for it does not represent the people but a small group, and invited the local youth and social organizations to join this caravan for peace and unity.

He added that the caravan will start at 11:00 am at Plaza del Estudiante and march to Parque Urbano Central and will involve youth from urban and rural areas under the slogan "For National Unity," and against the May 4 referendum.

"The goal is to show the country and the world the true patriotic youth that seeks unity against division," said Marquina, who called other sectors like women's organizations and unions to join in.

Marquina noted the peaceful nature of this march and blamed Mayor Ruben Costas for any violent actions by groups backing the polls that oppose President Evo Morales.

A group of women, on behalf of the Indigenous peoples of Santa Cruz rejected the referendum and announced that it would not attend because it violates the Constitution.

The local meeting of Indigenous Women noted the determination to "defend to the last consequences the historic rights of men and women of indigenous peoples with respect of the law."

Although Bolivia's National Election Council and several international bodies have declared the referendum illegal, the authorities of Santa Cruz plan to go ahead based on legal technicalities.

The government of President Evo Morales will oversee the turnout atáthe poll, whicháit considers a violation of the Magna Carta and a maneuver of the opposition to hinder the ongoing process of social changes in Bolivia.

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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-30-08 05:28 AM
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1. Keep your eyes open for news of this group of armed bullies who will quite possibly go after the
people mentioned in your opening paragraph. I don't see how they can escape their attention, as they have set themselves up as the police mob of Santa Cruz. This is posted in google translation tool English, or Ginglish:
The Youth Union has a team of intelligence
Domingo , Diciembre 2 de 2007



• Action • The Youth Union is the organization responsible for, for example, enforce strikes which declares the region.

The street resistance to government policies in Santa Cruz is headed by the Youth Union Cruceñista, umbrella organisation of some 35 thousand people, according to its leaders, and is ready to act immediately on any call for mobilization.
"We are the arm operator Civic Committee in all actions they take ... Our single line is the green and white flag, "said the chairman of the Youth Union Cruceñista, David Sejas.

This organization has a defined structure. It works primarily in different neighborhoods of Santa Cruz, colleges and institutions that bind to youth, who offered lectures and seminars on the claims Cruceños.

The leader Cruceños explained that "our main objective is to have our autonomy, our democracy and remain free. We will not allow interference, less than other countries, "he said.

However, the Youth Union is prepared not only to exit in street mobilizations in immediate action, also has a group of intelligence to act permanent.

"The intelligence groups are dedicated to investigate subversive groups inside the country, let us not forget that they are Venezuelans and Cubans are guerrillas, then we too are offsetting, we are organized to counter them, here we already know how many are they, what comes to them, what they have, where they are, we watched, "said leader David Sejas.

Young unionists not only operating in Santa Cruz, if any department needs your help are also involved. In the case of Chuquisaca, where there was a social upheaval against the decisions of the Constituent Assembly and to demand the full capital, Sejas admitted that was sent to a group of people to do a job, "but intelligence ". Their work was coordinated with the Interagency Committee that department.

"It was there (Sucre), we had people, but not acts, we went to look at doing more intelligence, there are no excesses, no shots, they were helping in this regard," he said.

He said that the work of intelligence that develop them also served to counteract the actions of the Movement for Socialism against their institution. According Sejas, many times the game according to government paid to young people to enter their mobilizations.

In the last stoppage, for example, said that a councillor Masistes hired a couple to spread poleras of the Youth Union. The team detected the intelligence and then stopped for a few hours for questioning.

He also investigated the Venezuelan presence in the country.

The structure

Members • The Youth Union Cruceñista brings together people from up to 36 years. After that age group to spend its members of the so-called loyalists, who also support young people in their protests.

• Networks work with networks neighborhood, where structures remain to train young people in schools and in universities.

• ideological bases were built mainly in the defence and development of their region. His goal now is to defend the autonomy and departmental fight against totalitarianism that promotes Evo Morales.

• Organization is the managing arm of Civic Committee for Santa Cruz, although they have management autonomy and are governed under their own statutes.
http://www.la-razon.com/Versiones/20071202_006108/nota_276_514443.htm

MaríaEscándalo (http://sergayenbolivia.blogspot.com) took this photo of the day civic strike in Santa Cruz.


Ay cynics of the Youth Union Cruceñista. I hope that it will soon cease to exist these facades ignorant. I think it is a shame that is happening with total impunity through the streets of my city with such messages dehumanized. It is unfair that these ignorant are those who cut the right to free movement of citizens.

Please ... cease to exist!http://www.eldeber.com.bo/rblog/maravillas/2007/09/la_union_de_los_estupidos.html

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A man was beaten "brutally" and a councillor was attacked with grenades
Images captured by television soon as Rene Vargas was beaten by strikers of the Youth Union Cruceñista (Photo: ABI) Bolivia: Cruceños 47 people by pursuing "traitors"
Grandstand America / Santa Cruz de la Sierra
A list of 47 Bolivian citizens circulates and was placed in different locations in the main square of this city until Prime ring, calling them traitors to the interests of Cruceños, in a clear demonstration of political persecution.

According to the Presidential representative, Gabriela Montaño, adding that this is Cruceños citizens suffered several attacks in their homes only by the failure to commune with the interests of some sectors of Santa Cruz.

One of the documented cases is that of Rene Vargas, 57 years old, who last Monday was "brutally" beaten by "hunger strikers" of the Youth Union Cruceñista, who accused him of being a militant of official Movimiento al Socialismo ( MAS), the party of President Evo Morales.

This person began to be beaten in the Plaza and the September 24 attackers, some eight persons comprising one of the pickets-the hunger strike which ordered the Civic Committee, accused him of being an infiltrator and take pictures of the measure pressure.

Pat, puñetes and blows all over his body were captured by a television channel and broadcast throughout the country.

The citizen, taken from the arms, repeated: "I am a former worker, today he ido to the cemetery because it is the birthday of my son who has died," while young people sought to take him to an unknown location.

The attacks against people who do not agree with the Radical Civic Committee for Santa Cruz and his group clash, the so-called Youth Union Cruceñista are repeated, as reported Bolivian citizens residing in Santa Cruz.


The list of 47 "traitors" can also be seen circulating through the streets of Sucre (Photo: ABI) grenade attack at a councilman
On Sunday dawn, the house of the councilman Osvaldo Peredo, MAS also suffered an attack with two grenades, which was about to kill one of his daughters.

"This is not the first time you make an attack against me, but I have not given importance, but this is a threat against my children, could have been killed and another found not to say that where it is," complained Peredo.

"To violate one that is engaged in this process of change, which is defending a cause, but not against children, whether to touch any of my children, then no longer be responsible for my actions," he said Peredo statements in the canal State television.

The Edil responsibility as intellectual authors to those who call the civilian death against many people they consider "anti-Cruceños".

In this context, a few days ago, the adviser of the Autonomous Prefecture of Santa Cruz, Carlos Dabdoub, in a public event proposed to "civil death" that considers enemies of Cruceños. An ambiguous proposal that could be interpreted by the most radical as a call to commit crimes.
http://www.tribunalatina.com/bolivia/viewer.php?IDN=3236

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30/11/2007
A strike against Income Dignity became looting and arson



Participants of "civic strike" in Santa Cruz, the main stronghold of the opposition Bolivian (Photo by Flickr)

The Bolivian opposition continues to sow violence
Grandstand America / La Paz
Calm returned to Bolivia on Thursday after a day of unemployment promoted by the opposition and condemned by the Government.

The Deputy Minister of the Interior Regime of Bolivia, Ruben Gamarra said that the strike failed, as had as an essential component violence and confrontation, despite its supposed civic character.

Supporters of the 24-hour stoppage, called by the so-called "enlarged crescent" in six of the nine departments of Bolivia, resorted to violence to force merchants and citizens to abide by unemployment, promoted as "consciential and peaceful" by their leaders .

According to the Bolivian state Agency report (ABI), the civic strike is not abided in the six provinces, with the exception of some cities, where the strategy was promoted by the mayors related to the prefects (governors) and other opposition groups.

The groups clash, accuses the government, were organized by prefectural (governorates) and attacked homes of opposition parliamentarians of the official party Movement for Socialism (MAS), forcibly shut down businesses and intimidated the media who do not commune with the line publisher of the "crescent", according to ABI publishes quoting the local press and testimony from citizens.

Unemployment in each department
"Pando showed a compliance as a whole in second day of unemployment blunt that is a reflection of the sense of claim and demand of the claims of this department," said the chairwoman of the Civic Committee of Cobija, Ana Melena.

In Tarija (southeast), it experienced a similar situation. The house was burned regional MAS, some parliamentarians of homes were threatened, several shops closed, most banks chose not to respond to the public and were seen burning tires in corners and avenues, ABI review.

For its part, in Cochabamba (center), opposition groups stoned the facades of businesses that sought to open normally. In addition, university students marched through a square of the city where they burned two dolls with the image of the local prefect Manfred Reyes Villa and one prefect of Santa Cruz, Ruben Costas.

"We have seen that this is taking decidedly civic strike with the exception of a few points in the population who are not accompanied by this measure," said the vice president of the Civic Committee of that department, Patricia Galarza.

Another department where there were problems was in Santa Cruz, one of the bastions aguerridos most of the Bolivian right. There, the young Cruceñista Youth Union, in a state of drunkenness, attacked markets and stalls that tried to open.

In Sucre, capital of the country, unemployment was full of activities and there were no acts of violence. This city is paralyzed since last Saturday by the demonstrations, also violent, the capital full of powers, claiming to La Paz.

The "crescent enlarged" consists of the departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Cochabamba, all in eastern Bolivia. It is called this way by the shape of crescent that stretches from north to south in eastern Bolivia.

The stoppage was called in protest at the adoption de la Renta Dignity, a bonus of 2 thousand 400 bolivianos (215 euros) aimed at the elderly from 60 years. To finance these payments, already approved by Congress on Wednesday and promulgated by President Evo Morales, the Bolivian State will have 30 percent of resources from direct taxes to Hydrocarbons (IDH), which previously went completely to departmental authorities.
http://www.tribunalatina.com/es/viewer.php?IDN=6724

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