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> Bolivian Leader Loses Allies as Demonstrations
> Spread
>
> October 15, 2003
> By LARRY ROHTER
>
>
>
>
>
> LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 14 - Despite moves by the
> military to
> tighten its control of the capital, President
> Gonzalo
> Sánchez de Lozada's hold on power grew more tenuous
> on
> Tuesday, as demonstrations demanding his resignation
> spread
> to provincial cities, and important political allies
> scrambled to distance themselves from him.
>
> "If the solution to preserving Bolivian democracy
> passes
> through the resignation of the president, we cannot
> put
> that aside," said Manfred Reyes Villa, leader of the
> conservative New Republican Force, a crucial part of
> the
> president's fragile governing coalition. "I've been
> clear:
> We have to listen to the people."
>
> Three cabinet ministers from the New Republican
> Force
> announced that they were suspending their
> participation in
> the government, though not formally stepping down,
> and a
> minister representing another party has formally
> resigned.
> Their actions came after Vice President Carlos Mesa
> broke
> with Mr. Sánchez de Lozada on Monday, accusing him
> of the
> indiscriminate use of force to quell the growing
> protests.
>
> More than 50 people have been killed here since
> Saturday
> in clashes between mostly Indian demonstrators
> carrying
> sticks and slingshots and the heavily armed troops
> the
> president ordered into the streets.
>
> A spokesman for the coroner's office here said
> "nearly
> every last one" of the victims had been shot to
> death, some
> at point blank range.
>
> The antigovernment demonstrations began nearly a
> month ago,
> initially to protest a proposal to build a $5
> billion
> pipeline to export natural gas to the United States
> and
> Mexico via a port in Chile.
>
> Groups representing poor Indian peasants who make up
> a
> majority of the country's population organized the
> effort
> and were soon joined by labor unions, student and
> community
> groups and opposition political parties like the
> Movement
> Toward Socialism. The forces of globalization have
> affected
> every Latin American country in one way or another,
> but
> nowhere other than in Bolivia has the conflict
> erupted with
> such intensity between the government and the
> indigenous
> poor.
>
> But as a result of the recent bloodshed, the focus
> of the
> protests has now shifted to demanding the
> resignation of
> Mr. Sánchez de Lozada, a 73-year-old millionaire
> businessman. Elected last year with only 22 percent
> of the
> vote, the president has accused his opponents of
> being part
> of "a seditious plot" supported by drug lords and
> leftist
> guerrillas.
>
> Demonstrators and weeping relatives carried the
> bodies of
> some of the dead through the streets of the capital
> and the
> nearby suburb of El Alto on Tuesday, chanting
> "murderers,
> murderers" and "Goni must go," referring to the
> president
> by his nickname. Family members said they were
> refusing to
> bury the victims until the coroner's office had
> certified
> the cause of death as gunshot wounds, making them
> eligible
> for a government indemnity.
>
> Of those known to have been killed, only one has
> been
> confirmed to be a soldier. Citing witness accounts,
> local
> news organizations reported that he was executed by
> his
> commanding officer after refusing to fire on
> demonstrators.
>
>
> All of the casualties thus far have occurred in the
> La Paz
> metropolitan area, but there were signs that the
> movement
> to topple Mr. Sánchez de Lozada was spreading to
> other
> parts of the country. Demonstrations took place in
> Cochabamba and Sucre, two important provincial
> cities, and
> labor unions in Oruro announced plans to march on
> the
> capital.
>
> As support for Mr. Sánchez de Lozada, a staunch ally
> in the
> American war on drugs, was ebbing here, his allies
> abroad
> were trying to shore up his position. In Washington,
> the
> State Department issued a statement warning that
> "the
> United States will not tolerate any interruption of
> constitutional order and will not support any regime
> that
> results from undemocratic means."
>
> With roadblocks having shut all six of the main
> highways in
> and out of the capital, La Paz has become a city
> under
> siege. Tanks and armored cars moved into position
> around
> key buildings, and the military high command issued
> a
> statement warning the people to avoid any
> confrontation
> with the troops patrolling the eerily quiet streets.
> As a
> result, a de facto state of martial law prevailed in
> many
> parts of the capital.
>
>
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