Living in Bolivia now and during the October revolt I can testify that the first anonymous says the truth. Regarding Evo’s current deaths, just out of my mind I can point out;
Santiago Orocondo, 22 years old, member of “Los sin techo” (People without a roof) on Pampa Ajasi, Oruro. Assassinated by a bullet from a brutal governmental repression performed by the army, why should the army police in a democracy?.
2 coca leaf peasants in the Cochabamba Tropic where brutally assassinated by Evo’s military forces, first there was an accusation, from the government, about narcotics; but at the end, the government finally said that those coca leaf plantations were illegal. Of course, they were not affiliated at Evo’s coca grower unions in el Chapare.
In Huanuni, Oruro we have 12 deaths, all attributed to Evo and his mazists branch in the miming sector in an intent for their political forces to gain lost terrain in that important segment. VP Lineras was quoted saying the regime will send the boxes for the dead instead of the police force to control the possible fights over the mine. He had to send both.
In Cochabamba, January 2007, we had bloody January under Evo and the mazist hands, 3 deaths, Christian Urresty, a teenager, was brutally beaten to death and hung from a tree in front of a church by Evo’s mazist “ponchos rojos”, a peasant paramilitary force under the command of some of the regime’s senators and ministers, currently being prosecuted by human rights groups in Bolivia.
In Camiri last April, Hernan Ruiz, 37, father and husband, was murdered by a lost bullet fired by Evo’s army, the mazist cleaned their hands saying he was in a political motivated protest. But, was not October 2003 a political motivated protest?
And fresh in the memory, this past September 2007, Flores Torrico, the 21 year old student murdered in Arani, Cochabamba by governmental forces. He was just asking to the end of corruption and better conditions to rural teachers.
This are 20 murders by Evo and his regime I can describe without going to the papers, but in reality, after Flores Torrico, there are 28.
By the way, I haven’t seen this information in Fox, I guess they care about Bolivia much less than the second anonymous think.