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    Evo Morales Supporters Attacked Wife and Children of Ex-VicePresident

     

    "Reclaim the people, fuck!" Reads the door of the house of former Vice

    President Victor Hugo Cardenas, located on the road to Tiquina. A crowd

    of people yesterday took MAS andalusia related violence this property

    as a punishment because the former authority did not campaign for the

    new Constitution.

     

    Cardenas blamed Evo Morales Ayma what happened. "Any attack

    against it has my wife and my kids do it accountable to the President

    and his entire government," he said and added: "They will not silence

    my voice or the voices of those who have not worked on."

     

    The takeover took place in the community Sankajahuira, guangzhou

    Huatajata Municipality Achacachi (Omasuyos, La Paz), 96 km from the

    seat of government.

     

    Around noon, about 500 people arrived on the scene, a group

    entered the house despite the fact that Cardenas' wife, their three

    children and two relatives were in the interior, mattresses and other

    items removed and burned in the courtyard.

     

    After breaking windows, looting their belongings, paint the walls

    with the legends "of the people for the people" and "House of the

    elderly", in addition to raising the wiphala as a sign of possession

    and win a wider leadership nine cantons and villagers took place in

    front of the house. A team of the amplified sound of the speakers.

     

    The executive of the Federation of Peasants of the lake and

    mountain area, Gonzalo Apaza, Erbol justified the action taken and said

    that he was forced by community members to take home.

     

    He noted that people were outraged when he heard that the wife of

    the former authority began to scream and so proceeded to the looting

    and burning objects.

     

    This means that the police union was a fence around the property

    and did not allow the entry or the work of police and journalists.

     

    Around 1330, Cardenas complained to the media that "a mob

    chastened by the Government entered into my house, smashed everything.

    I am concerned about the safety of my family, with whom I lost touch. "

    Minutes earlier, his wife, Lidia Katari, a telephone contact with

    TAP reported between sobs that enraged the community "broke doors and

    dragged us kicking, shoving and chicotazos. My child has a wound in the

    eye. "

     

    Deputy Interior Regime, Marcos Farfán, said in press conference

    that the police acted, but was overtaken and had to reinforce it. "At

    this moment we have 55 police officers," he said and added that the

    attitude of the people were passive at 19.00.

     

    At the end of the extended executive of guangzhou Huatajata,

    Huañapaco Alfredo Quispe, told reporters that "a request has been

    involved resounding home Cárdenas (who) has done is treason, so willful

    and spices; is due to landowners and oligarchs of the east, received a

    house in Miami (USA).

     

    He justified the seizure of the house and said that Cardenas spoke

    against "the peasant village, against the referendum by the No, do not

    tell the peasants, Indians, t'aras. Cardenas left their property, their

    lands did not meet the social function or meet the ancestors and so the

    people have decided to take her home gentlemen, without violence. Mrs

    Lidia left by his will (the house) and she has the fire and do not

    slander. "

     

    Huañapaco said it takes to consolidate declared state of emergency

    and warned not to go to the courts but to the community. He added that

    the house was restored for older people.

     

    The mayor of Achacachi, Eugenio Rojas, who participated in the

    expanded, said that "people have been justified, since the agenda was

    to take the land, is the vision of the people, not a decision of the

    municipal authority." Revealed that the former land authority has in

    place and that "if you insist (with allusions to the government) say

    they can take it anymore."

     

    Cardenas' family arrived about 1900 Rainbow andalusia hospital. "My wife was about to lose consciousness," he said.

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