[Marxism] MAS 10-point plan for Morales presidency

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Prensa Latina, Havana

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MAS Offers 10-Point Plan to Change Bolivia

La Paz, Dec 16 (Prensa Latina) Nationalizing hydrocarbons and all the
natural resources, and eradicating neoliberalism are two measures that
the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) intends to implement if Evo Morales
wins in Bolivia´s Sunday elections.

These actions are part of the progressive party´s Decalogue Proposal, a
10-part platform founded on a constituent assembly as the instrument to
re-found the country in the interests of the people.

For MAS, the constituent assembly should eradicate the neoliberal State,
which is excluding, discriminating, and colonial, and design a national,
productive community-State with dignity, to improve the lives of the
country´s inhabitants.

The assembly should also recover national effective control over its
natural resources and guarantee that they are at the service of the
population´s welfare.

Nationalization of hydrocarbons and other natural resources establishes
that gas and oil belong to Bolivians and not the transnationals, and
that the State, and not those corporations, has complete control and
management of the productive chain.

The MAS program states those natural resources must boost productive
development and job creation, with reactivation of the productive
machine, production of the manufacturing industry, micro and small
companies, and the agro industry.

Political decentralization, regional autonomies with solidarity and
reciprocity, and strengthening national unity based on cultural and
regional diversity, are also proposals of the progressive organization.

The decalogue includes a policy to fight corruption, with a fortune
investigation law to be implemented for ex presidents and other former
top officials in power in the last 20 years.

MAS has promised that the legislation will make possible confiscation of
illegally obtained goods and will establish sentences of up to 20 years
for those corrupt officials, and it will be subject to approval through
a referendum.

In the public administration sphere, MAS has planned to approve an
austerity law that will reduce excessive spending, eliminate redundant
personnel, and secret State funds, and create a new wage scale that
establishes reasonable limits for top officials´ salaries.

The organization is offering to eliminate large estates and speculative
possession of lands, speed-up providing farmers with plots of land, and
grant property titles to indigenous peoples, farmers, and small property
owners.

It also offers legal security to farmers and financing for agricultural
producers to recover properties currently in the hands of the bank,
seized for debts.

MAS is also proposing food sovereignty and protecting national producers
from foreign competition, including a city security plan and determined
struggle against drug traffic, creation of a new social security system,
and a law to establish community education, which respects
pluro-nationality and multi-linguism.

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