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Bolivia declares like patrimony to the coca |
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| A manifesting native jelevanta a copy of the new Constitution of Bolivia during a ceremony where the president Evo Evo Morales. |
Carlos Valdez
The High place, Bolivia (AP)
The president Evo Morales proclaimed the “state plurinacional” and started the “refoundation of Bolivia” on having promulgated on Saturday, the 7th a new Constitution with an Andean ritual, a military parade and of natives before thousands of his followers.
Of court estatista and indigenista, the new Great Letter incorporates an autonomies diet for the regions; he recognizes the community justice, which will have equal status that the ordinary one; it incorporates the second electoral return and the immediate reelection of the president for once and declares to the coca like patrimony. “This is the second independence, the real liberation of Bolivia”, he affirmed Mulberry trees on having claimed the “500 years of resistance of the natives”. “He gathers the deepest aspirations of the godforsaken sectors. It protects all the Bolivians and does not exclude anybody”, it annotated.
A yatiri (priest Aymara) burned a fetus of flame like gift to the "Pachamama" (Mother Earth) to invoke the protection of the Andean gods à la carte constitutional approved with 61,4 % of the votes in recent referendum.
After stamping his signature on the document, the chief called “to win with more than 70 per cent of the votes (the elections of December) to guarantee this democratic revolution”.
He said to his opponents: "They can extract me of the presidential palace, they can kill me, mission fulfilled by the refoundation of Bolivia”, but next it called them “to implement together the Constitution”.
The promulgation of the norm happens in the middle of a scandal of supposed corruption in the state oil company.
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Mexico
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Federal authorities stopped on Monday the chief of the police of the tourist spa of Cancún, Francisco Velasco, and moved it to the city of Mexico to interrogate it concerning the torture and murder of the retired brigadier general Mauro Enrique Tello, reported the mayor of the locality, Gregorio Sánchez. The body of general Tello appeared on February 3 with torture traces and several shots, along with those of a lieutenant in assets and a civil one inside a vehicle left in a highway nearby Cancún.
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The last survey
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They veto the mini-skirts
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