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Bentanzos, San Antonio and Potosi, BOLIVIA, (ABI ) .- "We no longer have to eat and we can not leave or back, "yells a man who looks to both sides of the road cut in an attempt to ascertain what has just declared a radius of La Paz, via cell phone. There are many people tense on the road linking north to Betanzos Potosi isolated from the rest of Bolivia by cutting routes and a general strike that left half a million dollars in losses each day and it turned the mythical mountain city, world famous for its Cerro Rico, in a prison for 40 foreign tourists.
is as close to "vital reluctance" that occurred in seventeenth-century Potosí, against the mainland authority as opposed to "irrational use of black and Indian slaves for mineral extraction, "reports on a man who says he knows" like the palm of the hand "the history of this city, which declines to reveal his name to avoid" retaliation. " In 15-day strike everything is scarce. There is no money in ATMs clinics. The trade has been closed by the pressure of the "Committees" and how little or much that he has sold, by the prayers of housewives who roam the streets slopes of the oldest city in Bolivia in search of food. The local hospitals and private clinics are lifeless. No drugs in place and the families of the sick call even placebos to mitigate the evils of their own. "There are no drugs in the pharmacy," laments a stooped old man who claims not to remember "in the last 60 years such a serious situation like this." Some village women home made cookies or traditional 'tawas', 'buns' and appealing 'hat' with which the population replaces the battle to speed up bread for breakfast or a traditional tea mid-afternoon. "A bad hunger there is no bad bread," gloated a woman who has requested 10 'tawas' to alleviate hunger spoken of his three offspring. These products "fly", literally, from the hands of any retailers who are located at strategic points on the slopes of the city to avoid detection by the sentries of the Civic Committee Potosina that have earned the bad reputation of "predators." On the roads to and from the city of Potosi, there are 700 trucks paralyzed. situation more dramatic the live 40 European tourists virtually prisoners of the Civic Committee Potosina. These include a 4 French civic organization in absentia flatly refuses to release despite pleas from the Paris Embassy in La Paz they even sent a helicopter to rescue, especially to a woman with altitude sickness cardiac and respiratory conditions. The crackdown goes ahead despite warnings from national authorities in relation to the harm he does to emerging local inbound tourism industry. In addition to the Cerro Rico, operated out of breath from the sixteenth century, when Potosi was one of the biggest cities in the world, much as Paris or London, the Mint, the first minting of the New World and architectural pieces such as the Basilica San Francisco, are at risk of losing the thirst of the visitors are convinced that this city of narrow cobblestone streets trapped in a bubble of legend, remains as such for three or four centuries. What could trigger tension in Potosí is the announced decision, by the protesters, from power generation facilities for the San Cristobal mine, the largest open pit silver and zing of Bolivia, which manages Japan's Sumitomo in the extreme west of the department on the border with Chile. Potosina Civic Committee demand that the Bolivian government roads, metal smelters and from four points of a request that President Evo Morales says ready to meet and actually is on the way realization, requires resources and policies to keep in its natural state the peak of Cerro Rico in danger of collapse. also a secular solution to boundary dispute on the border of Potosí with the neighboring department of Oruro, where the Morales government is seeking to build a cement plant near a limestone quarry, the main raw material for manufacturing the forger. The crisis situation has been reported internationally and the United Nations has denounced the violation of human rights in Potosi and the roads that link the Andean department to the south and southeast Bolivia. Bolivia The Office of the High Commissioners of the United Nations for Human Rights (OHCHR-Bolivia) supported the request Wednesday, the Bolivian Ombudsman that Potosi strengthen dialogue and warned that the blockade for more than 13 days because serious and "massive human rights violations." "The blockade and other measures of protest, which lasts for thirteen days (through Tuesday), are causing serious and massive violations of human rights of victims being broad sectors Potosi population. In particular have been seriously injured the right to free movement, health, education and economic and social rights of the most vulnerable, "said UN in a newspaper published in Bolivia requested. The OHCHR appealed to the authorities of the region, leading the protest and social partner organizations, to restore the free movement of persons and goods of prime necessity. "Although the claims are legitimate, it is essential to respect the rule of law and democratic institutions for the promotion and realization," notes the letter. In addition, the bank chief of the opposition National Unity, Jaime Navarro, on Wednesday called for the intervention of the Legislature Multi-national strike Potosí. "More than any other issue, the Legislature should propose quick solutions," said the deputy, when he stated that the joint session of deputies and senators scheduled for Thursday, modify your schedule and prioritize analysis of the regional conflict. The government rebuffed several times by the San Luis Potosí Civic Committee, in its unwavering intention to open a dialogue without pressure, has reported that public investment in Potosí edge so far this year the 200 million dollars, including five to six times more than in 2005. As an example of government management, Public Works Minister, Walter Delgadillo, announced on Wednesday that Bolivia's first tourist airport, built in Uyuni, in the department of Potosí, will be delivered to end of the year and said it has a gain of more than 80%. By way of his Minister of Government, Sacha Llorenti, the Morales administration reaffirmed its decision not to intervene, except by way of the police, the civic strike and roadblocks in Potosi. The presidential spokesman, Ivan Canelas, and ministers Llorenti and Jose Pimentel, Mining latter warned of the political background of the Civic Committee Potosina systematically blocking the dialogue with the Government. After a move to refer aborted dialogue between government and the Committee Potosina Canelas identified some political leaders of opposition parties such as the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario ultra-liberal and conservative Democratic and Social Power, right-wing former president Jorge Quiroga, both marginal in the national context. Also Social Alliance (AS), mayor of Potosi, René Joaquino, populist and Civic Solidarity Union, a litany in the traditional native games, of having colluded to "create conditions of confrontation without thinking about the interests of the people of Potosi. " Canelas identified Gonzalo Barrientos Alvarado, Amilcar Barral, Marco Antonio Villa and Guido Romay as operators of the destabilization of the dialogue. Barral and Villa said that are "notorious" AS leaders of the opposition and lead a strategy of conflict under the rubric of defending the interests potosinos. "have been fully identified these political movements that seek only cause problems when running under the pretext of defending the people," noted the spokesman. eroded the social situation as an Advisory Council of Potosi, decision maker in the protest that has turned the region into a major headache, deliberating "more actions" to pressure the government of Morales.
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"Imagine, I have two children, no more diapers (disposable) and no water nearby and the children are scalded, Jacqueline is stranded at the height of a point known as San Antonio, says afraid because activists monitored the protest threatening, some of them with dynamite cylinders shoulder, cut anyone escape routes. 