About 2000 delegates of the Movimiento de NO (Comites Patrioticos and student and labor organizations, among others), voted on several motions to present to the main assembly of the NO forces on October 27. Among the proposals created on Saturday are the rejection of the results of the referendum and the decision to stop all dialog on the part of the movement with the government. Perhaps most important are the motions to "reject totally and absolutely" the Agenda de Implementacion and fight to stop every single one of its 13 projects. For this purpose, another motion calls for the preparation of a national strike, a so-called brazos caidos.
Additionally, a group of Costa Rican lawyers has filed a complaint and a request that the referendum results be annulled with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the Interamerican Human Rights Court, and the United Nations.
This week's Semanario devotes several articles to the analysis of the Movimiento del NO from a social movement perspective. Several analysts agree that this movement goes a lot further than the fight against the TLC, and represents a force with the possibility to democratize Costa Rican politics. They emphasize the decentralized nature of the movement, its autonomous bases and the absence of organizational hierarchy, and the independence from the parties. Some trace the mobilization potential of the movement to the struggle against the privatization attempts of the ICE in 2000 and argue that Costa Ricans have by now a network of experienced organizers, communicational structures, and awareness in the population that make this movement so powerful. Most agree that this movement has consolidated with the fight against the TLC and is here to stay.
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