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Two More Killed in Bolivia; Opposition Leaders Reject President’s
Offer on Gas Export Deal
“Without a Strong American Opposition We Are Doomed”
– Tariq Ali Speaks Out on Iraq
8:01-8:06 Headlines
Two More Killed in Bolivia; Opposition Leaders Reject
President’s Offer on Gas Export Deal
INTRO: As many as 86 people have been killed in the four
weeks of demonstrations against President Gonzalo Sanchez
de Lozada. We go to Cochabamba, Bolivia to speak with a consultant
for the Washington Office on Latin America.
Two miners were killed and scores more wounded in Bolivia
yesterday as tank-backed troops and police opened fire on
demonstrators converging on the country’s capital of
La Paz.
A human rights group is saying that 86 people have been killed
in the four weeks of demonstrations against President Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada. This according to Agence France Presse.
President Sanchez de Lozada offered to call a referendum
on a five billion dollar natural gas U.S.-export deal that
triggered protests across the country.
Opposition leaders Evo Morales and Felipe Quispe immediately
rejected the offer and renewed their demand that Sanchez de
Lozada resign.
In a televised address to the nation, the president also
warned that if his proposal was not accepted and violence
continued, "it will become evident that protesters were
aiming to thwart constitutional order." He has rejected
calls to stand down.
The BBC is reporting that an Indian leader is prepared to
wage civil war to remove President de Lozada. Efrain Mancilla
Maicu said in a telephone statement, "We are ready because
we prefer to die now than always to be suffering."
- Kathryn Ledebur, Director of the Andean Information Network
and a consultant for the Washington Office on Latin America.
She joins us on the phone today from Cochabamba, Bolivia
today.
Link: www.wola.org
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:58 “Without a Strong American Opposition
We Are Doomed” – Tariq Ali Speaks Out on Iraq
INTRO: We spend the hour hearing a speech by renowned author
and Middle East expert Tariq Ali. His latest book is Bush
in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq.
A new report issued yesterday by the International Institute
for Strategic Studies found that the war in Iraq has helped
Al Qaeda increase its size and galvanized the group’s
will.
The report concluded in part, “War in Iraq has probably
inflamed radical passions among Muslims and thus increased
al Qaeda's recruiting power and morale and, at least marginally,
its operating capability.”
The report by the International Institute for Strategic Studies
is considered to be the annual bible for defense analysts.
- Tariq Ali, speaking at Saint John the Devine in New York
on October 14th, 2003.
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Democracy Now! is produced by Jeremy Scahill, Mike Burke,
Jeremy Scahill, Sharif Abdul Kouddous, Lenina Nadal, Ana Nogueira,
and Elizabeth Press. Parvez Sharma, Mike Di Filippo is our
music maestro and engineer.
[Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Rafael delaUz, Gabriel Weiss, Johnny Sender,
Rich Kim, Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Jenny
Filipazzo]
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