Strikes and blockades: Roads in Tarija are blocked today; the major Workers Union (COB) is calling for a 48 hour strike, starting this Thursday (pending issues with the government); yesterday Cochabamba – La Paz road was blocked near kilometer 7 in Cochabamba as the population did not want a water treatment plant there. Agriculture: Prices for soy;…
Day: October 4, 2011
Update: A H1N1 Influenza virus in Bolivia
Today, El Deber reports that two more people died as a result of complications with the A (H1N1) influenza virus in Bolivia. In Santa Cruz city, a 35-year-old man died in San Juan de Dios hospital, as a result of a pulmonary complication, tuberculosis and the flu virus. In Tarija city, a woman age 52 died after being…
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