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  1. Thirty-two years ago today, thousands of coca growers protesting a proposed ban on the leaf and chemical eradication gathered in Villa Tunari to prepare an unarmed takeover of the drug policing barracks in their region. The next day, at least nine of them would die.
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      Even before the anti-coca law, the US DEA had collaborated with Bolivian government to make the coca-growing region of Chapare into a low-intensity war zone.
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        In 1988, the LA Times described the day this way: "thousands of farmers in the Chapare marched on a government office there June 27 to protest the use of herbicides against coca plants. …"
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          "When the protesting farmers found no one at the agency's Chapare office in the village of Villa Tunari, they gathered at the compound of Bolivian anti-narcotics police next door. …"
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            "Police opened fire when some of the demonstrators tried to get through the compound fence, and later there was more shooting as police chased demonstrators into the village."
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              The Villa Tunari Massacre of June 27, 1988 claimed the lives of nine to twelve Bolivians, all of them on the protesters' side: Eusebio Tórrez Condori Felicidad Mendoza de Peredo Mario Sipe Luis Mollo Sabino Arce Emigdio Vera Lopez Trifón Villarroel Tiburcio Alanoca Calixto Arce
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                Eusebio Tórrez Condori and Felicidad Mendoza de Peredo were shot first. Witnesses told investigators that Felicidad was shot "point blank" "by a gringo," but official US accounts claim the five DEA agents on site did not fire on the crowd.
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                  The Multisector Investigative Commission, made up of labor leaders, opposition politicians, and Church representatives named seven confirmed dead, as of early July including the first seven names listed above. Calixto Arce was on their list of nine "disappeared."
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                    Documents collected by the documentation NGO CEDOIN and published in Informe R, including the church-labor-congress member Investigative Commission are available online here. scribd.com/document/467104993/Villa-Tunari-documents-from-Informe-R
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