Dokument #1129529
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Please refer to a previous information
request on relations between unions and the government in Bolivia
(BOL4707) as well as one on the situation of the Bolivian
Mineworkers' Union (FSTMB), (BOL4708).
An on-line information search for November
1984 did not provide any reference to a hunger strike in La Paz on
25 November. According to a 30 October 1984 report from Inter
Press Service, however, thousands of farmworkers were
reportedly in the second day of a hunger strike in Cochabamba. In
addition, on 30 October, The New York Times reported that,
Bolivian President Hernan Siles Zuazo had ended a five day hunger
strike. ["President of Bolivia Ends Hunger Strike," The New York
Times, 30 October 1984, p. A5; Bolivia: Farmworkers on Hunger
Strike to Demand Right to Grow Coca," Inter Press Service,
30 October 1984.]