CLODERA
LA PAZ, Nov. 19 ~~ Since the downfall of Paz Estenssoro, the Bolivian trade-union organizations have been busy dismantling the bureaucratic apparatus set up by the MNR [Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionariol and electing new leaderships,
The teachers have just held a ‘Special Congress. The first measures taken by the Congress were to remove the old leadership, headed by Daniel Salamanca and Jaime Bravo Burzoa who served expresident Paz Estenssoro, and to pass a request for an increase in the salaries that were reduced by the former government,
New leaders were then elected with a National Executive Committee composed of Elsa Clodera, the widow of the late Fernando Bravo. James, leader of -the POR [Partido Obrero Revolucionario], Sustovo Avila. a member of the FSB [Falange Socialista. Bolivianal and René Higueras, of general leftist persuasion. The Congress also paid homage to Fernando Bravo on the second anniversary of his.death.
‘A delegation of the POR, a delegate of the Fourth International, and a leader of the Argentine section of the Fourth International called on Elsa Clodera to convey greetings from the world Trotskyist movement, to congratulate her for her election as Executive-Sedretary of the Bolivian teachers organization and to express their appreciation for the way in which she is carrying on the work of her husband as a leader of the POR, Bolivian section of the Pourth Inter-. national.
Elsa Ciodera participated in the defense of the University of Ta Paz against the armed attack of government forces at the end of October, and, as a result, was jailed for some days.
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