Rally for Agrarian Revolution

Yesterday I went to what they call here a concentration or what I would call a rally for the agrarian revolution. There were well over 25,000 campesinos who waited hours for Evo and his ministers to show. They were driving tractors from Cochabambo to Ucurana because part of the reform is to give tractors to campesinos who mostly farm by hand. The BBC had someone there and they got a shot of Evo in the tractor . The media crush was just too much for me http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5241032.stm

The event was supposed to be the announcement of the agrarian revolution because it was the anniversary of the first agrarian reform in 1952 which gave land to the peasants but ignored their collective culture and gave individual tiny parcels of land but allowed big concentrations of land to private owners in Santa Cruz. That´s why they are calling this a revolution. The law is being held up by the Senate where the MAS is not in a majority. Evo said if Parliament doesn´t pass this law, which is essential for the ¨change we need in Bolivia" what good is the Parliament. There are increasing suggestions that where Parliament tries to stop the MAS agenda, they will use the Constituent Assembly. Tomorrow I am off to Sucre for Sunday´s opening of the Constituent Assembly.