*From many Bolivian news services: Cort* * * *Video: at the 18 second mark, there is a commerical but you can skip, its about a 15 minute video...*
http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/22094124 Massive protests and a 48 hour general strike began today by workers affiliated to the Bolivian Workers Central or as known in Spanish as the *Central Obrera Boliviana *(COB) were held all over the country and were met with violence from the police in La Paz where numerous people were injured, details still pending. Health workers, doctors, teachers, academics, miners, factory workers and others surrounded the country's political center in the Plaza Murillo in the city of La Paz, to demand that the government of the MAS and President Evo Morales give salary increases and calling for the overturn of Supreme Decree 1126 which extends the hours of work for doctors and health care workers from 6 to 8 hours a day. Also hundreds of teachers, professors and administrators from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) were stationed in front of the building of the Ministry of Health calling for the resignation of Minister Juan Carlos Calvimontes and in which the police responded with tear gas grenades. Tomorrow begins the march by indigenous roups opposed to a road through the TIPNIS, the opening to development and the lack of prior consultation and the march is supported by the *Central Obrera Boliviana.* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
