from Orinoco Tribune
In Bolivia, this Monday, organizations grouped within the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB) and their supporters continued protests and blockades across various regions of Bolivia against the neoliberal measures of the Rodrigo Paz government. These measures include renewed attempts to privatize large sectors of publicly owned assets and to reduce funding for social programs.
“The package of decrees and laws promoted by the executive branch—focused on the privatization of strategic resources, economic liberalization, and the reduction of the state’s role (DS5503)—combined with inflation, government mismanagement, broken promises, the attempt at agrarian reform, and the constant underestimation of the popular bloc as a political actor, has strained institutional stability to the breaking point,” stated Bolivian political scientist and researcher Valeria Duarte Galleguillos. “The demands of social organizations no longer revolve solely around the repeal of specific laws; today, the mobilization directly demands Paz’s resignation.”
The renewed demonstrations occur after organizations unanimously rejected the government’s call for dialogue the previous day during a national expanded meeting.