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Posted March 8, 2009
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La Paz, Bolivia
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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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