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Gómez: 100 Arrests, Tensions Mount, in Bolivia

January 23, 2001
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Dear Colleagues,

Bolivian President Jorge Quiroga and his boss, the Ambassador-Viceroy Manuel
Rocha (subject of a soon-to-be-published investigative report on Narco
News), have just gone overboard in their repression against coca growers'
union leaders.

This week, Bolivian authorities rounded up more than 100 union leaders, and
the Bolivian Congress prepares to remove its most popular member, Evo
Morales, the coca growers' leader who was elected with more votes than any
other member of Congress. Once more, the drug war attacks against democracy
itself.

Read the latest report from our Andean Bureau Chief, Luis Gómez:

http://www.narconews.com/

Gómez reports that other indigenous and farmer leaders throughout the
country are meeting today to determine whether to launch a nationwide
blockade of roads and highways to obtain the release of the 100 political
prisoners.

On a related note, Narco News extends its thanks to our colleages at the
daily Por Esto!, Mexico's third-largest newspaper, for publishing our recent
interview with Bolivian indigenous leader Felipe Quispe in its Sunday
magazine section.

from somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews(a)hotmail.com

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