... EXPANSION Cruz Youth Union. La Paz, June 27 (Erbol) .- On Sunday 29 June was born the National Youth Union, an enlarged projection of what is now Santa Cruz Youth Union (UJC), considered the armed wing and paramilitary Santa Cruz Civic Committee, which in turn embodies the civic and business interests of Santa Cruz that are now more radical opposition to the government of President Evo Morales.
"We are in the project is establishing the National Youth Union, where there are (members) of seven departments. The only departments that would lack are Oruro and La Paz, we would like to join too, we are looking to consolidate what is autonomy in all departments, "he told the Argentine newspaper Renacer.
No doubt the strength of this "union" with funding that receives direct or disguised form of businessmen and landowners in Santa Cruz, Beni and Pando that promote the autonomy statutes, a set of rules that generally benefits the interests of small elites but with great economic power and use the legitimate claim to autonomy posed a number of years the people of eastern Bolivia.
The idea of \u200b\u200bthe National Youth Union was conceived a few days ago when the leadership of the UJC held a congress in the city of Santa Cruz. "The next Congress of the UJC what we will do in the city of Sucre on June 29 at which time we will install a temporary directory that institution and start working. We will take action string with all members of the National Youth Union and protest against this government, "said Sejas.
One of the most recent violent events characterize this organization, which feeds primarily on hooligans soccer team The Strongest (Heavy Green) and also of some gangs Blooming Santa Cruz, was burned last week when a police vehicle after police stopped seven union of a group of 25 who tried to take a checkpoint in the northern city of Santa Cruz. Days before the UJC announced the takeover of the headquarters of Entel, Internal Revenue, INRA, National Health Fund, Oil Fund, Customs and even police units for the Prefecture is in charge of managing these entities.
unofficial versions are aware of the training is receiving a UJC elite by right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia, a job she previously held Marino Diodato, an Italian with ties to the mob in his country and organized groups of immediate reaction in the Police and the Army during the of former dictator Hugo Banzer.
Men Only ...
In Sejas official discourse, and all presidents transient UJC, the organization would have 85 000 militants in the city of Santa Cruz and an "honor guard" of 200 persons in charge of security at official acts of the prefect Ruben Costas, who now calls himself governor after the referendum of the autonomy statutes. The UJC, which allows only men to its ranks as Sejas himself acknowledged, has also been charged with beating up the Indians and peasant migrants reside in the cities of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Sucre. In the latter the clearest example was what happened last May 24 when hundreds of unionists arrived in the capital of Bolivia to participate in the repression of peasants who wanted to receive and secure the visit of President Morales to Sucre to an act of delivery of ambulances. Took them as hostages, were taken to the main square, the half-naked, humiliated to force her to deny their political affiliation and burned their ponchos, clothing and flags of his party as well as rural identity: the whipala. It was one of the most serious expressions of racism that we saw in Bolivia, since the Indians were forbidden to walk on the sidewalks or to enter the main squares in past centuries.
The UJC has also become well known for giving the "welcome" to ministers or the President himself, taking the main airports of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Sucre when it announces the arrival of these governmental authorities and thus avoid the "Indian" as they call Morales or his companions walked east country, as a few centuries ago.
assassination "?
Last week, Morales landed at Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz and then deliver tractors in a remote community in the city. A few meters from the airport and within hours of the presidential plane landed, the police captured the Junior Citizens Vaca Fernando Mendez (20) and Carlos Giovanni Dominguez Cabrera (34) carrying a Mauser rifle with a scope and 30 ammunition. The Government explained that it could be an assassination attempt (murder of a president) and intelligence agencies identified the defendants of belonging to the UJC, a situation that was denied by Sejas.
A few hours later the commentator Carlos Valverde disqualified Santa Cruz angry all these hypotheses, denying that it can give an assassination as the technical conditions of the gun found. Maybe his anger was due to a possible link between weapons, the UJC and his father.
A bear arms
's father Carlos Valverde Bravo also called Carlos Valverde Barbery and was a founder of the UJC. In the official discourse is said to have been defending the 11 percent of the royalties that should receive Santa Cruz for the exploitation that the state of oil in "their" land, but the UJC was created to defend the interests of elites.
Valverde Barbery founded in 1958 and commissioned the UJC of the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB) to fight the "communist threat." Participant was featured in the 1971 coup, when on 20 August in Santa Cruz, machine gun in hand, the public university intervened by order of dictator Hugo Banzer and as a reward received the Minister of Health of that dictatorship.
Months before President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada fled the country, Valverde urged the UJC call to arms to kill Collas and unlock the roads blocked by the colonizers, and proceeded to fill out lists of volunteers to go to Yapacani and San Julian.
Last year, Carlos Valverde father at a meeting of his beloved UJC urged those present to buy weapons from Brazil and use them to achieve their objectives from the department of Santa Cruz. The images were sparsely disseminated through the mass media, these entrepreneurs also owned East, and the same could be seen and heard the wild applause that he received this proposal. Perhaps
juveniles accused of an assassination attempt, which were seized by police but released within hours by the prosecution that also responds to the interests of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee, heard the speech of Valverde and tried to make it yours.