Post by Okwes on Dec 21, 2006 11:39:35 GMT -5
Bolivia Natives March for Land Law
La Paz, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian indigenous people restarted a walk towards La Paz Friday, demanding the approval of a new land law, while traditional parties in the Bolivian east announced actions against governmental measures.
Adolfo Chavez, president of the Indigenous Confederation of the East, said the protest calls for the Senate to approve the law, which has been at a deadlock due to inflexible stances by the opposition.
Other native leaders announced the protest could arrive Monday in La Paz, where they will gather for a vigil at Murillo Plaza.
Grassroots organizations and farmers federations have joined the walk, along which members of the Constituent Assembly have informed marchers on the forum s sessions, obstructed by actions of minority forces interested in delaying the writing of the future Constitution.
In the meantime, opposition members of the so called Santa Cruz Assembly began a hunger strike, likely to be massive, as the first regional measure against the governmental decisions on the new land law.
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