Bolivia: Banzer Forced Back
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The Bolivian working class is winning its confrontation with dictator General Hugo Banzer.
For two weeks, the indefinite strike by 35,000 tin miners has held totally firm in the face of Banzer's military occupation of the mining districts, his arrest of political and union leaders of whom 57 (including mineworkers' leader Victor Lopez) were forcibly deported to Chile, and his attempts to get a return to work through an offseaf a 2001 annas insanana Their other demands include the release of all political prisoners, the withdrawal of the army trom the mining regions, the return of the occupied radio • stations to the miners and a committment to take no reprisals.
The granting of such demands would be a crushing blow to Banzer's increasingly isolated dictatorship.
Last week factory workers staged a one-day general strike in support of the miners' den lands and virtually all the country's iniversity atridanto are on indofinite , trike the defence of the rights and the just aspirations of workers"
Banzer's i forces are under continuous attack. Three of them were killed when a military patrol was ambushed.
The army in its turn, however, has been responsible for killing several workers and students since the present conflict began.
Latest reports are that :. 3000 miners in two districts have returned to work after Banzer agreed to open wage negotiations and to accept all their other demands.
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