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<h1 class="reader-title">Bolivia: The Great Resistance Assembly
Deliberated in Cochabamba</h1>
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<div class="reader-estimated-time">November 26, 2019<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Those who in use of their faculties granted by the
political constitution of the state resolved:</p>
<p>1- WE RATIFY OUR MORAL AND MATERIAL SUPPORT TO OUR
BROTHER EVO MORALES AYMA, PRESIDENT OF THE
PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>7-WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE DETAINEES
AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL AND AN END TO THE ILLEGAL
PERSECUTION AND DETENTION.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>9- THE COMMITMENT OF UNITY FOR THE SOCIAL AND
POLITICAL STRUGGLE TO SEEK SOCIAL JUSTICE WAS
SIGNED.</p>
<p>10- WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE ABROGATION OF D.S.
4078, WHICH THREATENS THE LIVES OF THE BOLIVIAN
POPULATION.</p>
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