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Hercules Plane Airlifts Zionazis From Bolivia As Their Asshole-puppet Is Given The Boot |
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by Haaretz Service and agencies AKA DAN "Irrelevant Headlines" Disinfo
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18 Oct 2003
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/351061.html
A Hercules military transport plane evacuated
Israeli tourists who left La Paz due to violent
protests in the Bolivian capital, Channel One TV
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The plane, leased by Israel from
Peru, made two trips from a
military airport near La Paz to
transport 102 Israelis out of
Bolivia to Peru.
Hundreds of foreign tourists,
including around 100 Israelis
spent five days holed up in
hotels across La Paz after
violent protests against the government's
economic policy, primarily the export of the
country's natural gas reserves.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Moshe Debi,
confirmed a rescue operation was underway.
Meanwhile, Bolivia's President Gonzalo Sanchez
de Lozada formally resigned in a letter to
Congress on Friday following the deadly popular
revolt against his free market economic
policies.
"I put my resignation before the consideration
of the beloved Congress," Sanchez de Lozada
said in the letter read aloud to Congress by an
official as government opponents heckled,
screaming "murderer."
The Vice President Carlos Mesa was sworn in to
take over the presidency later on Friday.
Mesa is a journalist and historian who entered
politics in mid-2002 to run for office with
Sanchez de Lozada. He is not a member of a
major political party
Israel Radio reported Friday that the tourists
made their way on foot from their hotels to one
of the main squares in the city center, where
they were transported to the international
airport at El Alto. From there they were
secretly flown to a neighboring country, the
radio reported.
On Thursday, tens of thousands of Bolivians
rallied to demand the president's resignation,
after protest leaders rejected the government's
offer to compromise over a gas export plan that
triggered weeks of deadly street clashes.
Soldiers guarded the presidential palace as
columns of farmers, workers, miners and
indigenous groups descended on La Paz, setting
off dynamite and wielding sticks demanding the
presidents resignation. Others waved the
rainbow-colored flag that is the symbol of
Bolivia's Indian community.
Over the past three weeks, demonstrators have
set up roadblocks and battled police in a
crisis pitting the ruling elite against a poor
Indian majority over market reforms that have
failed to narrow the gap between rich and poor
in South America's poorest country.
Human rights groups say some 65 people have
died, most of them at the hands of police and
military. The government has not confirmed the
deaths.
In Washington, the State Department issued a
travel warning urging all U.S. citizens to
defer travel to Bolivia.
Late Wednesday, the president sought to defuse
the growing crisis with a nationally televised
address in which he offered to hold a national
referendum vote over his gas export plan.
But Evo Morales, a powerful Indian opposition
leader and head of the country's coca growers,
said the president has no choice but to step
down.
"There are too many deaths now," he said.
Roberto de la Cruz, a union leader in the city
of El Alto, where popular rejection of the
president and the gas export plan has been
strongest, repeated his demand that Sanchez de
Lozada abandon office.
"Now there is no choice: he must resign," he
said
Critics say the proposal to construct a $5
billion pipeline to export gas to the United
States and Mexico will only benefit the
wealthy. They're also angered over the gas
being possibly exported through a Pacific port
in neighboring Chile, the country's longtime
rival.
The government's heavy-handed response to the
protests galvanized thousands of labor unions,
students and government opponents who long have
harbored discontent with Sanchez de Lozada's
administration.
Demonstrators Thursday shouted "Goni assassin!"
as they marched through the downtown streets,
referring to the president by his nickname.
Elsewhere in the capital, long lines formed
outside grocery stores over worries of food
shortages as demonstrators continued to block
roads, choking off the city from the rest of
the country.
Sanchez de Lozada has said he would not consider
resigning. But the president has found himself
increasingly isolated since the protests began
in late September as key members of his ruling
coalition government have distanced themselves
from him.
Sanchez de Lozada embarked on his free-market
plans during his first term in office from
1993-1997, privatizing many state industries.
Now 73, he took office for a second term in
August 2002, promising a similar free-market
plans.
The austerity programs have angered many, while
impoverished Bolivians say their lives have not
improved. Some 60 percent of the population
lives on $2 a day or less.
Rosendo Fraga, a South American political
analyst at the Nueva Mayoria think tank in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, said the president was
facing his toughest challenge since taking
office and "it's looking increasingly
difficult."
The crisis, meanwhile, was drawing the concern
of world governments besides the United
States.
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said
he asked Bolivia's government officials to work
toward a solution.
"They need to make every effort possible to urge
the people and Bolivia's government to find a
peaceful and democratic solution," Silva said
while visiting Argentina.
In Brussels, the European Union called for a
halt to the bloodshed that has gripped Bolivia,
denouncing the often violent protests as an
attack on a democratically elected government.
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Bolivian President Formally Resignsgood Example Of The "poor" Kicking Whities Ass! |
by Mickkie AKA DAN "Wastes His Time w/ This BS" Disinfo
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18 Oct 2003
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President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada's resignationspoken in broken spanish with an american accent follows weeks of violent popular revolt against the government's thieving jew inspired free market economic policies.
After one month and more than 70 deaths, the President has gone but it has been the most undignified of exits.
His letter was read out, where he acknowledged blood had been spilt and called for democracy to continue.
The asshole has fled to Miami so he can live aparasitic existance off your tax dollars, with the shrub s gang cause you americans are too wimpy to boot your dictator out.
He has left behind a political mess.
Opposition strike leader Evo Morales says Vice-President Carlos Mesa will replace the booted resident.
Mr Morales says the events are a victory for the people.
"I think this was achieved thanks to the strength of the people. To the political conscious of the people," he said.
"It was thanks to intellectuals, professionals and above all to the struggle of the indigenous peasant front, some of whom went on hunger strike. Some of whom blocked roads, who have managed to get rid of part of the political mafia in Bolivia."
President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada served just 14 months of his term.
Bolivia is the poorest country in South America and he was despised for his pro-US, free market policies.
Celebrations have started but there is a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the country.
Many cannot believe he has gone and the way he has done it.
Meanwhile 28 Australians remain trapped in La Paz, but most of them have been moved to a single hotel.
All flights in and out of the country have been cancelled because of widespread protests and social unrest.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says the Australians are safe and well.
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