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Bolivia: New Constituion Goes to Congress; Oppos'n Warned they Can't
Impose "Autonomy"
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Prensa Latina, Havana
http://www.plenglish.com
New Bolivian Constitution to Congress
La Paz, Dec 14 (Prensa Latina) The Constituent Assembly leader****p is
to hand over to Bolivian Parliament Friday the text of the new
Constitution, before of a massive demonstration by social and native
movements to celebrate that historic achievement.
The forum's direction and chief from parliamentary groups worked on the
final revision and correction of the new Constitution, which has 411
articles and 12 transitory regulations.
The do***ent will be delivered Saturday to President Evo Morales, in an
act attended by representatives from 36 native peoples of the country.
The new Constitution was approved last weekend by two thirds of votes,
in accordance with the Assembly's Extension Law.
Only pending is article 398, on the maximum land a private owner can
have, and a popular referendum, to define if that is 10,000 or 5,000
hectares per person.
Deputy Land Minister Alejandro Almaraz told Prensa Latina that Bolivia
has a significant amount of landowners against democracy, national
unity and agricultural revolution.
On Thursday, a mob led by officials from the Sucre mayor's office
attacked the Gran Mariscal Theater and burned a car with do***ents from
the Constituent Assembly.
The violent incident staged by the forum's enemies is one more of a
spiral of violence that moved sessions to Oruro.
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Bolivian de Facto Autonomies are Illegal
La Paz, Dec 14 (PL) The separatist autonomous statutes that Bolivian
opposition is brewing will only be legal within the framework of the
new Constitution, government sources warned on Thursday.
Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia backed the proposals for autonomy
but rejected the intention to impose them, because they violate the
Constitution.
Garcia, who is also the president of the National Congress, said that
imposing the de facto autonomies in the departmental "Half Moon" (Beni,
Pando, Tarija and Santa Cruz) as of Friday is a mistake.
He called the people in those departments to reject "desperate actions"
by leaders who want to implement by force what is already established
in the Constitution.
The vice president questioned the absence of the majorities in the
drawing up of the do***ent: for example, in Santa Cruz, only the
followers of opposition Prefect Ruben Costas, less than 50 percent of
the population, participated in the process.
"Why didn't they call the 53 percent of Santa Cruz people who did not
vote for Mr. Costas?," wondered Garcia, who noted the marginalization of
majority sectors.
He made it clear that the proposal to hold an autonomic referendum must
be subordinated to legality and the constitutionality of the new
Constitution, approved last weekend in the city of Oruro.
Garcia warned that the statute approved on Wednesday in Santa Cruz
attempts against the unity of Bolivians and the integrity of the
territory, and condemned the creation of an Autonomous Police.
He also criticized a proposal to create the Santa Cruz citizen****p,
which will force Bolivians from other departments to request visas to
enter the "Half Moon".
"Such juridical aberration to control the migration of its inhabitants
is not established even in long-tradition federal societies," he
stressed.
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