It divided the march of the natives of the east.

Radio Pío 12 - [ 06.09.05 - 10:26 ]
The sixth march of natives and farmers denominated by the Natural Territory, Resources and the Constituent Assembly that had divided Tuesday, the President of the Confederation of Natives of Bolivian Oriente today (CIDOB), Saúl Chávez, said that at least 1,500, between natives and farmers, marched from Trinidad to Santa Cruz and later they try to arrive at La Paz.

Trinidad, 6 of September of 2005. - The sixth march of natives and farmers denominated by the Natural Territory, Resources and the Constituent Assembly that had divided Tuesday, the President of the Confederation of Natives of Bolivian Oriente today (CIDOB), Saúl Chávez, said that at least 1,500, between natives and farmers, marched from Trinidad to Santa Cruz and later they try to arrive at La Paz.

It announced that in the course of the march the natives of the Assembly of the Guaraní Town are going to make different blockades and mobilizations in the region from the Bolivian Chaco and the north of the Department of the Beni, in endorsement to the great mobilization that will initiate the original ones.

The representative indicated that the President of the Republic, Eduardo Rodriguez, invited to make meetings of dialogue with the farmers and natives to treat the demands that they have, despite the answer of its representatives was negative and requested the arrival of a commission from government to the city of Trinidad to open negotiations.

We requested (to President Rodriguez) a hearing to him from the 25 of August but he did not listen to us. Now our bases request that the dialogue takes in Trinidad.

The reason for the march is by the rejection of three Decretos Supremos (DS) that the then President of Bolivia, Carlos Table, that to say of the workers of the land defends the large estate.

In the same way, the farmers and natives demand of the 10 to the 15 percent of the Direct Tax to Hidrocarburos (IDH), and to guarantee a space so that their representatives are in all the process of the Constituent Assembly.

Saúl Chávez stressed that the march that will initiate Tuesday will be in favor compound largely of young people of the different communities farmers from the region. In order to complete details on the accomplishment of this I SAW March by the Territory, the Natural Resources and the Constituent Assembly, Sunday was made extending, with the presence of the organizations farmers of the interior, who advanced their decision to support moral materially and the march.

In the meeting, they analyzed the presence of indigenous leaders and farmers, who are political leaders, as the case of the executive of the Confederation of Working Farmers of Bolivia, Roman Loayza, who announced his presence for the game of the mobilization.

Debemos to take care of to show an image to us that does not distort our movement, we do not want that they label to us as politicians, who we are responding mandate of some abbreviation, for that reason we must analyze this subject ", maintained Saúl Chávez, president of the CIDOB.

In the end the criterion prevailed of which the presence of political leaders is not advisable, "if they want to us to support, welcome that support, but who do it of outside, they can mobilize people and support means", maintained.

On the other hand, Nemesia Achacollo, representative of the Confederation of Women Farmers "Bartolina Sissa", maintained that also they will be present with people who will mobilize from the provinces cruceñas Sara, Ichilo, Santiesteban Bishop, among others.

"it is not the first time that we are going to participate, we come here because we have a pact of unit of social organizations of Bolivia, who we are crying out by a series of demands; we are going away to organize and in the course of this week we are going away to fold to the march ", needed the national leader women farmers.

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