"Although the unspeakable bureaucracy has in no way varied in its chauvinist and conciliatory positions, a push from the working masses has forced union leaders to join the radicalizing fight of that class, which is liberating itself in Bolivia." - 2/6 report from Indymedia Bolivia

2/11: In the 2/9 pre-dawn negotiations with coca growers' leader Evo Morales, the embattled Bolivian government, facing a national crisis resulting from the blockades, cancelled Supreme Decree # 96415. This move relegalized the sale of coca leaf in the Chapare region and reopened the Sacaba Coca Market and the coca farmers' independent media outlet. Signed by the government officials, Evo Morales, indigenous leader Felipe Quispe, and labor leader Oscar Olivera, this agreement calls for a ninety day truce between the government and coca farmers. Details

Mass mobilizations of workers, coca farmers (cocaleros), college students, small debtors, teachers, and the unemployed have erupted in Bolivia. The epicenter of this uprising is in Cochabamba, where demonstrations exploded after the expulsion from Parliament of Evo Morales, a cocalero union leader. Protestors are demanding the abolition of the Bolivian Parliament and the formation of a Popular Assembly to take its place. As the struggle for the liberation of the Bolivian people intensified last week, police shot and killed one protester. Read more
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