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Later that day Radio Viloco called a meeting for the next morning in Curawara, the central hamlet of the valley. The approximately 5000 campesinos of this region speak Aymara, an Indian language, as a first language. They save a portion of their agricultural produce for their own consumption and carry the rest to Viloco and to La Paz for sale in the urban markets...
...meeting in Curawara, a resistance committee for the valley was formed and the first decision made was that no agricultural produce would leave for La Paz, in keeping with the strike and blockades called by CONADE. They also decided to suspend sports events and observance of religious holidays that would detract from the efforts at hand. Then the assembly addressed the question of security. The campesinos were assigned to guard the lower valley, the only alternative entrance to Viloco. Each community was responsible for providing 15 men for a 24 hour shift. Women stepped forward and asked what they could...
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