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image by Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2006
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The flag is horizontally divided rojo, verde y café (red,
green and coffee). Red stands for the blood shed by the
Guaranis, green stands for the natural resources and
coffee for the land. (The department anthem celebrates Apiaguaiqui
Tumpa.)
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2006
The most advanced claim is for the creation of the tenth department of Bolivia as the department of Chaco Boliviano. The new department (125 755 km²) would be made of the five provinces (in Bolivia, departments are divided into provinces):
The local administration was less enthusiastic than the APG. Whereas the APG wants its proposal to be discussed in the Constituent Assembly, Willy Salguero, President of the Civic Committee of Monteagudo (Comité Cívico de Monteagudo), says that the Committe has to meet first. During the ceremony, the APG hoisted the putative flag of the new department as a way of presenting the department to the country. Salguero considers the flag hoisting more as a symbolic act proving the unity of the Chaco territory.
Lawyer Ricardo Zárate, one of the promoters of the ceremony, said: «The aspiration to the Chaco inhabitants to create their own department is legitimate since we have been historically abandoned.» The Department Council of Santa Cruz stated that the territory of the department was indivisible, being an homogeneous geographical and historical area. Councillor Freddy Landívar accused the Bolivian government to be behind the affair, in order to dismember the most opposing region (there is a strong secessionist movement in Santa Cruz, where most of the oil resources are located). The President of the Civic Committee of Tarija, Francisco Navajas, said he was worried by the projects aimed at dividing the country.
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Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2006
It covers about half the area of three current departments,
including two of the smallest and the largest, Santa
Cruz.
António Martins, 21 Apr 2006
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