I realize this is a long shout from poetics, but, I think, not from what
poetry concerns. And if your news services in the U.K. are anywhere near as
censored (by money, not by bureaucrats) as they are in the USA, the
internet is the quickest alternative to circulate such information. If the
news media there are covering this, I apologize for the redundancy. David
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>Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 13:58:57 -0400
>From: Thomas Kruse <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: URGENT MESSAGE FROM JIM SHULTZ
>
>Dear Friends:
>
> Just a few hours ago Bolivia was declared under martial
>law.
>People are being arrested, the army is occupying the
>streets, human
>rights offices are being invaded by government agents, radio
>stations
>are being closed by the military and huge sections of the
>city have
>had their electrical power cut (I had to leave home to find
>a computer
>that was still charged to write this).
>
> The situation is grave and we need help to get the story
>out.
>Please share the brief article below as far and wide as you
>can with
>anyone who will publish or broadcast it. My own media list
>is in
>a computer which I can't access. For the time being I can
>still be
>reached at 591-4-290-725. I will try to send updates as the
>situation
>allows. Please do not worry for our safety, my family and I
>are
>fine and keeping well away from the violence. IF YOU
>RESPOND, PLEASE
>RESPOND TO THE EMAIL BELOW, NOT THE RETURN ON THIS ONE.
>
> Jim Shultz
> The Democracy Center
> [log in to unmask]
>
>BOLIVIA UNDER MARTIAL LAW
>
> As of 10 am Saturday morning Bolivia was declared under
>martial
>law by President Hugo Banzer. The drastic move comes at the
>end of a
>week of protests, general strikes, and transportation
>blockages that
>have left major areas of the country at a virtual
>standstill. It also
>follows, by just hours, the surprise announcement by state
>officials
>yesterday afternoon that the government would concede to the
>protests'
>main demands, to break a widely-despised contract under
>which the city
>of Cochabamba's public water system was sold off to foreign
>investors
>last year. The concession was quickly reversed by the
>national
>government, and the local governor resigned, explaining that
>he didn't
>want to take responsibility for bloodshed that might result.
>
>Banzer, who ruled Bolivia as a dictator from 1971-78, has
>taken an
>action that suspends almost all civil rights, disallows
>gatherings
>of more than four people and puts severe limits on freedom
>of the
>press. One after another, local radio stations have been
>taken
>over by military forces or forced off the air. Reporters
>have been
>arrested The neighborhood where most of the city's broadcast
>antennas
>are located had its power shut off at approximately noon
>local time.
>Through the night police searched homes for members of the
>widely-
>backed water protests, arresting as many as twenty. The
>local
>police chief has been instated by the President as governor
>of the
>state. Blockades erected by farmers in rural areas continue
>across
>the country, cutting off some cities from food and
>transportation.
>Large crowds of angry residents, many armed with sticks and
>rocks are
>massing on the city's center where confrontations with
>military and
>police are escalating.
>
>Tom Kruse
>Casilla 5812 / Cochabamba, Bolivia
>TelFax: (591-4) 248242, 500849
>TelCel: 017-22253
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
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