Bolivia police, workers clash at protest over plant shutdown

AP reports for Fox News World: Bolivia police, workers clash at protest over plant shutdown LA PAZ, Bolivia – Anti-riot police and workers clashed in Bolivia’s capital during a protest against the government’s decision to close the country’s largest state-run textile company. Officials said police fired tear gas at protesters and kept them from seizing…

What is needed in Bolivia? Coca crops or textiles…?

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Coca crops or textiles When the government announced the dismissal of workers of the National Textile Corporation (Enatex), it should be disclosed for reasons of national accounting and awareness, the number of jobs that illegal coca has created in the country. Because, as everyone knows, the company that now…