Bolivia

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | January 25th, 2005 | Trackback

Two weeks of strikes and roadblocks have greeted the decision by the government to cut subsidies on gasoline, thereby increasing the cost to consumers. Protests in La Paz early in January forced officials to drop the price increase from 23 percent to 10 percent, but that didn’t satisfy the residents of Santa Cruz, where 5,000 people protested Jan. 24. Unrest could continue, and could become violent.

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