Urgency of solidarity with Bolivia

Driven to despair with the gradual changes promoted by the Morales government, but enlivened with the open support of USA, the racist oligarchy armed itself for confrontation. Manfred Kings, former-military man in the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer and influential autonomist of Cochabamba, organized groups of responsible young fascists for violent confrontations that resulted in dead and wounded. Currently, they have taken refuge in Santa Cruz. In November of 2006, the news agency Erbol informed that a group of businessmen traveled to Spain to contract mercenaries. Owners of "security" companies had confirmed the profitable business. One of them said that they negotiated 650 "combatants, old members of elite units, who are already operating in the bordering zones of Bolivia".

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The coup-minded ones also count on the millionaire help of USAID and the NED, agencies of USA. that finance non-governmental organizations of opposition to Morales. The intelligence service of the government recently proved the donation of millions of dollars for separatist leaders, student unions and journalists in the campaign against the Constituent Assembly. The financing guaranteed the "civil stops" and the violent blockades of roads. In 2007, the consulate of Venezuela and the residence of a Cuban doctor were targets of attacks and one official of the embassy of USA was detained with arms and ammunition. In this process, "the media are the protagonists of the counter-insurgency, stimulating the internal confrontation and external intervention," affirms Calloni.

Active internationalism and pressure

The separatists, maneuvered by the Bolivian oligarchy, who must acquire new dynamics with the May referendum in Santa Cruz, has been receiving criticism from all sides. The Organization of American States (OAS), famous for its servile past to the USA, condemned the coup d’état mentality. In an extraordinary session in Washington, on the 26^th of April, the OAS supported the democratic institutions and called on them to dialogue the governing of Media Luna. Intellectuals and political, social and religious leaders - among them, Pérez Esquivel, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano and the Brazilians Frei Betto, Moral Niemeyer Oscar and Fernando - also have disclosed a solidarity manifesto:

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