Fight for indigenous rights in Bolivia

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From British daily The Guardian:

Class war threatens Bolivia over Morales reforms

· Farmers rally to back presidential programme
· Leadership blames clashes on US interference

Lola Almudevar in Sucre

Tuesday September 11, 2007

Thousands of poor farmers and indigenous activists marched through the Bolivian city of Sucre yesterday to support the embattled government’s attempt to rewrite the constitution.

The demonstrators vowed to defend President Evo Morales‘s “democratic revolution”, a radical effort to empower previously marginalised groups which is shaking South America’s poorest country.

Mr Morales, a former coca farmer, wants to redress Bolivia’s colonial legacy in a new charter drafted by a constituent assembly. For his indigenous supporters, who form 60% of the population, the assembly is a long overdue assertion of their power and rights. “For the first time the political constitution will recognise our existence as indigenous people. Until now we have not had rights, that is why this fight is important,” said Wilber Flores, an MP and indigenous leader.

However, the initiative risks foundering because of opposition from students and the middle class, many of them descendants of European settlers. They accuse Mr Morales of polarising the country and excluding the relatively wealthy eastern lowlands from power.

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Over the past decade, a new rise of mass struggles in Latin America has sparked an encounter between revolutionists of that region and many of those based in the imperialist countries. In many of these struggles, as in Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales, Indigenous peoples are in the lead: here.