Starting in mid-July repression has swept Bolivia.
Bolivia has been under a military regime for five years, a regime which has instituted a ferocious dictatorship. All political organizations except the puppet groups which support the regime are illegal and the organization of trade unions is also prohibited. repression whose names are known so far: All attempts at setting up legal unions have been crushed by violence - even trade unionists of moderate political views have been imprisoned. In the mines, military occupation continues under a veritable terror. The living quarters of the miners resemble concentration On the morning of July 15 detachments of guerrilla warfare. the secret police (DIC - Direction of Criminal Investigation) attacked a house in Cochabamba.
In this house were Enrique Ortega and Rita Emilia Valdivia. In the battle which took place, Ortega was arrested after having been very seriously wounded and Rita Valdivia was killed.
On the same day, the 15th, in Cochabamba, after another battle, Antonio Moreno and Victor Cordova were arrested. They were press. (The daily particularly detailed account extraordinary press conference.) Still again in Cochabamba the university students Mario Bustamente and Beatriz Guardia fell into the hands of the police.
In the city of Oruro the repression hit the also a member of the POR. two brothers Felipe and Elio Vasquez Condori.
were also captured. The professor Felipe niguez was also charged, as well as the speak under tortur iniversitv leader Ceda. Ceda. however. succeeded in escaping.
In La Paz the police launched a massive with Moreno. repression, resulting in numerous arrests and brutal investigations. Among the arrested were Rene, both students of law. the Aymara peasant Tomas Chambi, the youth leader Anselmo Herrera Lopez, the railwayman Gabriel Guzman Illanes, the students Cecilio and Victor Alcon. A little later the students Alberto Romano and Jose Unzategui were also by the police a key man, was arrested but managed to escape and has taken refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy thanks to the aid of the director of the daily El Diario.
The moring of September 9 police attacked Oruro, member of the POR. a house where Inti Peredo was staying with other comrades. According to the international University of Oruro.
others were arrested. The police didn't anything concerning identity, but according to the declarations of Cubans.
According to the families of the imprisoned, those arrested have undergone severe violence students, members of the POR. on the part of the police and were tortured frequently. For example, Beatriz Guardia was tortured. Felipe Vasquez, before being shut in prison, was brought outside the city of Oruro Combol. and unclothed and whipped in the presence of utilized by the police against the prisoners are now "classic" ones (electric currents, blows to Finnish nationality. the testicles, suffocation, etc.).
The investigations have been conducted under completely illegal conditions. The house of Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso, lawyer by profession and a leading Trotskyist, has been completely ransacked: the police left absolutely nothing there, carrying away even clothes and The members of the family have been glasses. treated brutally and the police have told them that if they found Gonzalez himself they would send him to "talk with Saint Peter.
Protests have been made against the repression by the student federations of ha Pare Oruro and of Cochabamba, which have condemned the torture and have demanded the liberation imprisoned people. These federations have also demanded a regular trial before ordinary tribunals. The same position Human Rights, the president of which, priest Prats, has also protested against the "investigation" of the house of Gonzalez.
No one knows yet what will be the precise accusations against the imprisoned. From the a new wave of declarations of the representatives of government and of the police, it is probable that the main accusation will be that of being in the act of preparing an armed revolt against the military dictatorship, in the form of a guerrilla the the less"
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