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…
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Bolivia: Disabled protesters clash with riot police over state benefits in La Paz
International Business Times reports: Bolivia: Disabled protesters clash with riot police over state benefits in La Paz By James Lillywhite [to watch video, please use link at the bottom] Disabled protesters clashed with riot police in Bolivia, as the call for a rise in state benefits in the country intensifies. Dozens of protesters could be…
The real evo
You can understand people’s behavior when they face conflict and have to make decisions. The Bolivian ruler, a coca grower has really done it, this time. His egocentric attitude towards wasting Bolivian funds in expensive and useless governmental buildings and other luxuries for his own leisure, while not governing in a way that would meet…
Guaraní people turn to the law to fight latest battle with Bolivian authorities
Toby Stirling Hill reports for The Guardian: The history of Bolivia’s Guaraní, an indigenous people living in the country’s southern lowlands, is one of struggle in defence of their territory. In 1892, an uprising against local landowners ended with the massacre of more than 2,000 Guaraní. A century later, Guaraní activists confronted oil companies seeking…
Corruption, lack of competitiveness, anarchy and governmental aggression! A typical day under current coca-grower presidency!
The cartoons shown here were published on August 24, 2015, they represent a “normal” day since the coca grower leader assumed power almost ten years ago… and he intends to perpetuate in power?! … hell NO!!! This is from El Dia: It shows the “effort” to extinguish the allegations of corruption by the “controller” of…
Bolivian gov flunked! There is no leadership, nor respect: Dozens arrested as Bolivia miners clash with police
Aljazeera reports: Dozens arrested as Bolivia miners clash with police Officers arrest 44 protesters in the capital, as striking miners from Potosi demand government invest in infrastructure. [you can watch the video of this photo by using this link] Hundreds of miners from a strike-paralysed city in Bolivia’s highlands have battled police in the capital…
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