Bolivia Burning
When today the President Sochez de Lozada
announced the application of a tax law on basic salaries as ordered by
the IMF, his words resulted in a popular rebellion, that continued all
day long and will have its follow-up in tomorrow general strike.
Since the morning of February 12, hundreds of mutinied policemen
clashed
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] with military police in the main square of La Paz, in front of the
Government Palace. This has resulted in 18 persons
killed
and more than 90 people injured by the use of live ammunition. In the
afternoon, while riots were still taking place, thousands of people went
spontaneously to the streets, sacking banks and burning political party
and government offices.
Civil war erupting throughout the country as people are asking the
President to resign. The government was forced to cancel the economic
measures it had announced, but tension have not lowered. As nightfall
came, sacking is occuring throughout the city while the Army patrols the
streets.
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arde (es),
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Aufstand in
Bolivien (de), and
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