KATHRYN LEDEBUR, [email protected]
Currently in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Ledebur is director of the Andean Information Network.
She was just interviewed on the news magazine “The World.”
She said today: “The chaotic Paz administration continues to give mixed messages on dialogue as it politically persecutes protest leaders and moves closer to the Bolivian equivalent of martial law. The right, the government and privileged Bolivians continue to stigmatize social movements as bloodthirsty, vandals linked to drug trafficking, although they are on the streets to guarantee subsistence and to force Paz’s resignation. The far right and rightwing para-state groups that enjoy impunity … push the Paz closer to repression, creating the potential for an acceleration and massification of human rights violations.”