Thousands of residents of the city of El Alto, from the outskirts of La Paz, march towards Congress during a demonstration to demand that Senate either approve a series of law projects presented by President Evo Morales, or be closed definitively, in La Paz November 21, 2007. REUTERS/Jose Luis Quintana (BOLIVIA) By Eduardo Garcia
Wed Nov 21, 2007 2:36 PM EST
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Thousands of supporters of Bolivian leader Evo Morales marched through the streets of La Paz on Wednesday shouting slogans against the opposition, days after Morales' foes called for "civil disobedience" in the regions they govern.
The march of mostly Aymara Indians from the city of El Alto -- a Morales stronghold near Bolivia's administrative capital La Paz -- came as the leftist leader faces increasing pressure from the rightist opposition against his mining and land reforms...
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“Bolivian Ponchos Rojos” kill dogs to threat
Gathered in a meeting where their move to Sucre, capital of Bolivia was approved, country men from the self called group “Ponchos Rojos” (Indian paramilitar group) hit and cut the throat of two dogs in a warning signal to the government opposition.
While the animals were painfully crying the Achacachi natives (Achacachi is a little town located on the Bolivian highlands) shouted “This is the way people from the Half Moon (Eastern Bolivian region covering Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija departments) are going to suffer”.
The two animals were grabbed by their throat and hung with ropes from an arch and then mercilessly hit with strong sticks before their throats were slowly and hardly cut. Sorrounding them dozens of Ponchos Rojos plus women and children acclaimed the threat, some of them carrying a storm rifle and showing them to the journalists already in place.
The animals torture was performed in the middle of a gathering in the Altiplano (Bolivian highlands) on the place called the great district Qala Chaka, placed on the Achacachi entrance where always the Ponchos Rojos settled.
The group, a government ally, declared itself as going to war, defending the Bolivian Assembly and warned that without any doubt they will spread blood aimed with this goal. Meanwhile they were showing off their whips.
The Achacachi Major and Eugenio Rojas, a member of the Ponchos Rojos together with Ruperto Quispe, leader from the group, informed that 1000 members are moving to Sucre the next Sunday. “if there are quarrels we are going to fight” Quispe said.
Translated from the Bolivian Newspaper “La Razon”
http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20071123_006099/nota_249_510475.htm
Yeah, there's nothing more grating to the elites of Latin America than an Indian who doesn't "know his place."
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