VIDEO (spanish): Eva Morales Comments re: Hunger Strike

That was hilarious. I can refresh your memory:

In Bolivia, Hunger Strikers Wait Out Political Standstill

By Monte Reel
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 8, 2007; A09



SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, Dec. 7 -- Time passes slowly during the fifth day of a mass hunger strike. Rain falls on the city's main plaza, then stops. A couple of hundred people shift on damp mattresses. Someone lights a firecracker and pigeons scatter.

This city is the capital of Bolivia's political opposition, a place where President Evo Morales is considered the enemy. How long the hunger strikers will remain camped out to protest his presidency is like almost everything else in Bolivia at the moment: a question without a clear answer.

Will the government approve a new constitution before a Dec. 14 deadline? Will the deadline be extended? Will voters agree to keep Morales in office in an emergency referendum, or will they vote him out? Will his opponents -- several of the country's governors -- survive a similar vote? Will the streets turn violent?

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That's how they pass much of the time here -- criticizing Morales and his supporters. The other side does the same to them: When some opposition senators launched a brief hunger strike last year, they were the subject of much ridicule among Morales's base -- especially after a BBC camera caught a few of the senators eating fried chicken that had been smuggled into Congress during the night.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702024_pf.html

Here's a pathetic waste of skin after the hunger strike:



Getty Images 28 months ago
The governor of Bolivian province of Santa Cruz Ruben Costas (C) answers questions to the press 14 December, 2006 in Santa Cruz, after the lifting of a hunger strike against the government of Evo Morales. President Evo Morales has called on the armed forces to help prevent Bolivia from splitting, as governors of four of the country's wealthiest provinces took measures seeking autonomy from the central government. The governors of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando and Tarija, where most of Bolivia's oil and gas resources are located, have called for a meeting on Friday of the Democratic Autonomous Junta, a regional body, with the goal of distancing their provinces from the policies of Morales' socialist administration in La Paz.

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Lechín Weisse, Branko Marinkovic
Two more "Bolivian" 'hunger strikers'

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When some opposition senators launched a brief hunger strike last year, they were the subject of much ridicule among Morales's base -- especially after a BBC camera caught a few of the senators eating fried chicken that had been smuggled into Congress during the night. :nopity:

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This is not going to happen with Morales. The reason: Simple; To kill the hunger, he will resort to the ancient campesino method of dulling hunger pains -- he will chew coca leaves. :thumbsup:

Good for him!

It's a lot smarter than wolfing down fried chicken late at night, the way the opposition senators did, when they thought everyone was asleep and no one would see their messenger delivering their feast!

Surprised this is not getting more exposure in the MSM. After all, a president on a hunger strike is not an everyday occurrence.

-- Vice President Garcia Linera ordered vehicles and planes to bring opposition senators to La Paz by noon tomorrow (Saturday) or face possible legal action.

-- Morales supporters are beginning to join in solidarity hunger strikes around the country. More than 1,000 began hunger strikes on Thursday and Friday. Thousands more are expected to join the strike on Monday if the impasse is not resolved.

BBC article below gives capsule overview of what this is all about.



Day two of Morales' hunger strike in the presidential palace.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7993274.stm

Completely without honor.

Your BBC News article points out accurately how pathetic these men really are. Considering the ENORMOUS noise the opposition has gone to on occassion, to pretend to go on hunger strikes themselves, it's ludicrous when they start talking like this:

An opposition senator, Walter Guiteras, called Mr Morales' action "shameless".

"Congress is absolutely independent of the executive branch," he said.

"We think that the president is blackmailing via the strike. Hunger strikes can't be used within the logic and dynamics of democracy, within the terms of the coherence of law, to try to get something. It seems absolutely shameless to me."

Someone should ask him, "Have you lost your mind?"

They did it themselves only a year or two ago. Idiots! Fools! Criminals.

Surely hope the Obama administration is NOT following in the footsteps of the imposter President, _{George W. Bush,} and counseling the opposition behind everyones' backs.

UN General Assembly head voices support for Bolivian president on hunger strike
2009-04-11 13:27:40

LA PAZ, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann called on Friday the international community to support Bolivian President Evo Morales who has entered the second day of a hunger strike to pressure the congress to approve an electoral law.

D'Escoto said that Morales faces obstacles from the opposition to approve a new electoral law for the elections in December.

"With deep concern I have received information that the approval of the Electoral Regime Law to make possible the general elections in December 2009 has been blocked in the congress," D'Escoto said.

The new electoral Law includes issues like the electoral census, constituencies, parliamentarian seats for indigenous groups and the vote of Bolivians outside the country. Bolivian opposition lawmakers did not agree with the law because it gives 14 places in the congress to minority indigenous groups. However, those changes were included in the new Constitution, recently approved by people's referendum with more than 60 percent of the votes.

More:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/11/content_11168420.htm