goodhearted clear reporting from Bolivia

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Fri Feb 14 15:35:48 PST 2003


<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=20&ItemID=3044>

The concluding paragraphs;

"Bolivia is a beautiful country, full of life. Today, when we saw the miners march without rest, together with young workers and students throwing dynamite and singing "!Que se vaya el asesino! (The murderer must go!)" we couldn't but be affected. They were part of an incredible tradition of struggle with its origins in the gigantic mobilizations of the COB (Central Obrera Boliviana, Bolivian Worker's Central) in the 1980s and the revolutionary struggles of 1952. It is these struggles to which the current government is both heir and traitor, while the protagonists of the future march together, writing their own history once again.

A history that is written in blood, as histories of the people always are. A history that we cannot merely sit and watch from the comfortable seat of the spectator."

john mage



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