---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:07:43 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [pttp] [narconews] General Strike in Bolivia! (breaking news) April 30, 2001 Please Distribute Widely BREAKING NEWS... Dear Colleagues, The Bolivian Central Union (COB, in its Spanish acronym, the AFL-CIO of Bolivia) has just decided to begin a National General Strike tomorrow, Tuesday, May 1st, and to continue the work stoppage in all industries indefinitely until the Banzer regime meets the 15 demands of coca-growers and other sectors including urban workers, farmers and retirees. The National Strike comes on the Seventh Day of a blockade in which coca growers - protesting U.S.-imposed drug policies - have stopped traffic on the nation's major highway. And it comes on the heels of dictator-turned-president Hugo Banzer's recent trip to Washington where he met with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and other officials. If the Banzer regime does not meet the 15 demands by tomorrow morning, this will be the first-ever national labor strike against the drug laws in the history of the world. It will have profound consequences for the drug war not only in Bolivia, but Peru and other Latin American nations, and particularly for Plan Colombia. Mayday mobilizations are also planned for tomorrow in Bogota, Colombia and throughout Mexico (by the Indigenous National Congress). Full reports coming tomorrow with Issue #11 of Narco News. Narco News has just translated the French Press Agency report on the General Strike plans in Bolivia to English, once again breaking the information blockade.... http://www.narconews.com/generalstrike.html We will be following the events closely and covering them so that the efforts of the Bolivian people will not be buried any more in a wall of silence and censorship. Developing... Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ narconews<@>hotmail.com Subscribe for Alerts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
