[News] Bolivia: The Great Resistance Assembly Deliberated in Cochabamba

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  Bolivia: The Great Resistance Assembly Deliberated in Cochabamba

November 26, 2019
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The expanded session began with a moment of silence for the fallen 
victims of the coup d’état in Bolivia and shouts of “Gloria a los 
caídos”, “Patria o muerte, venceremos” in Lauca Ñ, in the department of 
Cochabamba.

An emotional moment was when a young man from El Alto, who recently 
joined the ranks of the struggle for the defense of democracy in the 
country, took the floor: “I was at the Senkata plant (where one of the 
massacres occurred) I stopped there to observe the place, and I asked 
that democracy be respected because this Mr. Fernando Camacho, president 
of the civic committee for Santa Cruz brought racism and discrimination 
to the city of La Paz and El Alto, and not only there, but also to the 9 
departments of the Plurinational State of Bolivia”.

He continued: “I am not a politician and I do not have a political 
background, but one day I began to summon people and they responded, and 
we went down to the city of La Paz with 7 marches and they gassed us, 
but we received the support of all the citizens”. He continued with his 
reflection: “Now I see that a leader is formed like this,” he affirmed 
before an ovation from MAS militants, leaders, ex-leaders and executives.

He recounted the events that occurred during the Senkata massacre in El 
Alto: “In the Senkata massacre in which we were on vigil, it is not true 
that we were going to assault the gas plant to blow it up, it is a lie 
(the interior minister, Arturo Murillo sustained that justification 
before the repression) came to gas us and shot us, there are 16 dead and 
the defense minister denies it, we have evidence of lead bullets, where 
are we going to get bullets? Who would believe that we have killed each 
other? We came to sign this Unity Pact to restructure and reorganize the 
Movement towards Socialism. There are leaders who have sold out and this 
has to be said head on, they do not represent our vote, nor do they 
defend the Bolivian people. I am forming myself as a new leader to 
defend the humble class like that of our president Evo Morales”.

Finally, he closed his speech: “We are not politicians, but we are going 
to become politicians, we are going to fight for democracy, and we are 
going to run for general elections. I call on the people of the city of 
La Paz, El Alto and the Social Movements that supported us in this 
struggle when we asked for the resignation of the self-proclaimed 
president Áñez, whom we do not know, my only president is Evo Morales”.

Let us remember that in Bolivia there is a generation of young people 
who do not know what it is like to live under de facto and neoliberal 
governments. This generation experienced the democratic government of 
President Evo Morales, which had the greatest political, economic and 
social stability with a 13-year continuity of democracy, something 
unprecedented in the history of Bolivia. This new generation experienced 
this period as something natural and not as what it really was, a 
conquest resulting from the struggle of the Bolivian people, and 
especially the indigenous movement, whose fight has more than 500 years 
of history since 1492.

The country in its history as a Republic since 1825 was marked by 180 
years of neoliberal governments and coups that broke the country in the 
past and spilled Bolivian blood. In 2006, with the refoundation of the 
Plurinational State, Bolivia became the first country in the world to 
declare itself plurinational. In this way, the government and the 
redistribution of wealth included those who were historically excluded 
and invisible, women and indigenous people.

The words of this young man: “I am forming myself as a new leader”, mark 
the prediction of the indigenous leader Túpak Katari: “I will return and 
I will be millions”.

With these same words, the vice-president of Bolivia, Álvaro García 
Linera, signed his resignation under pressure on November 10. Evo 
Morales for the Bolivian people is not just another president, it is the 
continuation of the struggle of the indigenous leader Túpak Katari, Evo 
is our liberator and therefore the Bolivian people have decided to fight 
for democracy and until Evo Morales returns to Bolivia.

Then cocalero leader Andronico Rodriguez, Vice President of the Six 
Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba, a federation of which Evo 
Morales Ayma is the president, took the floor. Rodríguez led the 
Ampliado Nacional de las organizaciones sociales en resistencia al golpe 
de Cochabamba at the headquarters of the federation of the tropic in 
Lauca Ñ, located in the department of Cochabamba.

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The National Expansion of Social Organizations in Resistance to the Coup 
was conducted with social organizations from different parts of the 
Plurinational State of Bolivia: El Alto, the Chore of the municipality 
of Yapacani, of the municipality of San Julián, of the north of Potosí, 
etc., where the national situation and the national social mobilizations 
that are being carried out in defense of democracy against the de facto 
and coup government were analyzed. There, a Commitment of Unity of 
Social Movements was signed for the struggle in defense of democracy 
against the de facto and coup government.

Those who in use of their faculties granted by the political 
constitution of the state resolved:

1- WE RATIFY OUR MORAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT TO OUR BROTHER EVO MORALES 
AYMA, PRESIDENT OF THE PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA.

2- THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS RATIFIED AND A FOURTH INTERMEDIATE IS 
DECLARED FROM TODAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2019, UNTIL THE DE FACTO GOVERNMENT 
FULFILLS THE AGREEMENTS AND COMMITMENTS RECENTLY ASSUMED WITH THE SOCIAL 
SECTORS MOBILIZED IN THE COUNTRY.

3- WE DEMAND THAT THE PLURINATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY AND EXECUTIVE 
BODY IMMEDIATELY APPROVE THE LAW OF GUARANTEES TO GUARANTEE THE EXERCISE 
OF FUNDAMENTAL CIVIL, POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IN FAVOR OF 
THE ELECTED POLITICAL AUTHORITIES AND UNION LEADERS.

4- WE ASK THE BOLIVIAN WORKERS’ CENTER (COB) TO RECTIFY THE POSITION OF 
STRENGTHENING THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE UNPROTECTED POPULATION, AND 
WE REPUDIATE THE DE FACTO TOTALITARIAN AND MURDEROUS GOVERNMENT, AND ASK 
FOR THE RESIGNATION OF THE SUPPOSEDLY SELF-PROCLAIMED PRESIDENT.

5-WE ASK THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF THE MAS IPSP TO CALL FOR A NATIONAL 
AMPLIFICATION OF THE MAS IPSP, WITHIN NO MORE THAN 5 DAYS.

6-WE DEMAND THE PUBLIC REPARATION OF THE NATIONAL SYMBOLS LIKE THE 
WHIPALA AND TO SANCTION THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BURNING OF THE 
PATRIOTIC SYMBOL.

7-WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE DETAINEES AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL 
AND AN END TO THE ILLEGAL PERSECUTION AND DETENTION.

8- BY A MAJORITY OF THE NATIONAL EXPANDED SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN 
RESISTANCE TO THE COUP D’ÉTAT, IT WAS APPROVED THAT THE UNION 
CONFEDERATION OF INTERCULTURAL WOMEN OF BOLIVIA-CSMIB BE PART OF THE 
UNITY PACT.

9- THE COMMITMENT OF UNITY FOR THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLE TO SEEK 
SOCIAL JUSTICE WAS SIGNED.

10- WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE ABROGATION OF D.S. 4078, WHICH THREATENS THE 
LIVES OF THE BOLIVIAN POPULATION.

/Resumen Latinamericano 
<http://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2019/11/27/bolivia-la-gran-asamblea-de-la-resistencia-delibero-en-cochabamba-las-voces-jovenes-de-quienes-estan-dispuestos-a-dar-batalla-a-la-dictadura/>/

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