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VIOLENCE IN BOLIVIA: PROTEST LETTERCANO, Miércoles, Octubre 15, 2003 - 17:54
Andean Aboriginal Nations Council
(Picture: La Patria Newspaper, Oruro, Bolivia) Please sign and send this letter to the following email addresses, fax numbers and regular postal addresses. This letter is only a model, so we encourage you to write your own personal letter to the Bolivian government. October 14th 2003 Sir President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, By the present letter I want to manifest my profound consternation regarding the violence occurring since the beginning of the government formed by your party MNR (Revolutionary Nationalist Movement) and its allies MIR, NFR and others, and presided by you. During the last few days these acts of violence have reached a critical level of atrocity. To this day, your 14 months administration have produced the surprising number of 124 deaths and hundreds of wounded, victims of the police and military forces under your orders, which gives a mean of at least two deaths each week. This incites me to express my deep preoccupation regarding these useless life loss that produced hundreds of orphans and mourning person. I am convinced that the solution to the dramatic economical and social situation the Bolivians are going through is certainly not silencing forever the cries of those who only reclaim justice and equal distribution of wealth. I know the Bolivian population, in majority indigenous, presents the highest rates of poverty, unemployment, malnutrition and corruption of all South America. The Bolivian people’s reality, totally beyond its governing leader’s imagination, has produced a high level of rebellion, the same that has been shown in the last weeks. Today the government is overwhelmed by the events and the people’s wrath is erupting out of control. To the international community, you have falsely declared that the present mass movement had been instigated by subversive elements. On the contrary, the Bolivians have spontaneously flowed through the streets and blocked the roads, and have freely decided to demand you to resign. No human being could stay indifferent to this disheartening situation of outrage against humanity. It is why, to show my solidarity with the mourning Bolivian people and with the victim’s families, I would like to show you my energetic condemnation and reject of your government’s coercive and repressive policies. Thus I call to your high investiture to resolve the following points as soon as possible: - Immediately pacify the country by the demilitarization the zones under occupation. These are the actions I expect from your government. Hoping that this letter will be effective, please receive my distinguished salutations, _____________ Presidencia de la República de Bolivia: Vicepresidencia de la República: Presidencia de la H. Cámara de Diputados: Presidencia del H. Senado Nacional: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto Ministerio de Defensa Nacional Ministerio de la Presidencia e Interino de Justicia y Derechos Humanos Ministerio de Gobierno
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