Weekly Report - 9 December 2003

A commitment to set up `working tables' to discuss issues such as land distribution and the situation of the coca growers.

The celebration of a referendum on the future of Bolivia's natural gas and other hydrocarbons `in the first quarter of 2004.'

The beginning of discussions on a constitutional amendment to adopt the constituent assembly as the mechanism for future reforms of the basic charter. [Mesa and Morales acknowledged, according to the latter, that there were `time constraints' on the introduction of this change.]

Of course, Morales took advantage of the occasion to present to Mesa his own blueprint for a new hydrocarbons law and treatment of the privatised firms and outsourced services — all based on the principle of `recovery of state ownership.' He also urged Mesa to ensure punishment of those responsible for deaths during the recent p

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