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Evo Morales Announces Plans to Evict All "Illegal Settlements" |
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Forced eviction Demolition/destruction |
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| Date | 09 June 2006 | ||||||||
| Region | LAC [ Latin America/Caribbean ] | ||||||||
| Country | Bolivia | ||||||||
| Location | El Dorado I and II, Santa Cruz | ||||||||
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| Brief narrative |
• About 10 000 members of the Landless and Homeless Movement (Movimiento sin Tierras y sin Techo) supported by mine workers occupied private and public land in the district of Oruro in south Bolivia in March 2006. The squatters refused to leave the land, and three months later army and police evicted them. Violence broke out during the eviction; one 21-year-old man was killed and many persons injured [“Un muerto en desalojo de tierras ocupadas por campesinos,” La Prensa Grafica, (9 June 2006), http://www.laprensagrafica.com/lodeldia/1454.asp]. • In September 2006, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, announced that all illegal settlements in the country would be cleared. Shortly after the announcement the army and police started evicting people who occupied plots of land in the country’s capital La Paz. During eviction drives carried out with excessive force, several people were injured and others arrested. Among the settlements affected were Pampa San Miguel de Cochabamba, and a farmer settlement of the Franciscan Fathers of Copacabana [“Gobierno ordeno desalojo de avasalladores de las tierras,” La Patria]. • In September 2006, approximately 200 police forcibly evicted approximately 500 families from the settlements El Dorado I and II in Santa Cruz. The families had occupied and built their homes on the land more than a year before. As police started destroying the shelters with bulldozers, violence broke out. Several people were injured and police arrested and briefly detained 13 persons. The settlers lost their homes and most of their belongings, but were not compensated in any way [“Buscan a loteadores del barrio El Dorado,” El Nuevo Dia, (12 September 2006), at: www.el-nuevodia.com/Versiones/20060912_006856/nota_257_331413.htm]. | ||||||||
| Costs | € 0 | ||||||||
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