A new law was approved on Wednesday and 10 000 vehicles registered undocumented on the first day of implementation. There is strong criticism of Evo Morales and accuse it of encouraging crime. About 10,000 vehicles Bolivia admitted to smuggling, especially from the Chilean port of Iquique, were recorded in the first 24 hours after application […]
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Bolivia.com reports that the offices of Amazon Command Staff and officers of the Control Authority and Social Control of Forests and Land arrested a Peruvian municipal authority on charges of illegal logging in Bolivia. The Agency of Development for Macroregions and Borders reports that the operation was conducted with the boarder community of the Manuripi […]
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Customs agents at the Central Mail post-office in Buenos Aires uncovered archaeological remains of skulls and mummies wrapped in blankets and Inca fabrics, according to sdpnoticias.com. The package was shipped from La Paz, Bolivia to an Argentine citizen living in Buenos Aires who was arrested for smuggling. The Federal Public Revenue Administration said the remains […]
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Local police of Comodoro Rivadavia are investigating a possible case of enslavement and sexual abuse involving a 12-year-old Bolivian girl, according to la-razon.com. The girl was brought to the country by a couple who promised her family she would begin studying at a local school. Police discovered the girl wasn’t in school and was being […]
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The Government intends to implement a national system of international airports and resorts with an investment of at least $ 144 million by 2015, said Sunday the Minister of Public Works, Walter Delgadillo. In an interview with state media, Delgadillo anticipated that this national system will consist of 8 and 6 international airports tourist airports. […]
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Residents of the area reported Kupini not have potable water service for three months, when the slide occurred on the east side of La Paz. They also called for the Social State Company for Water and Sanitation (EPSAS) is billed by usage, if it were normal. Read Article
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According to Univision.com a Japanese tourist died after falling into a ravine while cycling on the infamous “Highway of Death” in the Bolivian Andes winding road in the Bolivian Andes near La Paz, police reported Thursday. Read Article
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The cocaine was seized during a surprise raid today by police and anti-narcotics prosecutors at Puerto Fenix in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay. According to neike.com.py, the shipment came from an area near Ciudad del Este, Bolivia and was probably heading to Mozambique, Africa. The man caught carrying the shipment was Ángel Tomás Aguayo Saldívar. Read […]
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Tuesday opened in Santa Cruz de Bolivia, Defense College of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), which will strengthen the bloc’s integration and design strategies to respond to the threats of foreign intervention in the continent. Read Article
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Iran’s defense minister, whose extradition is sought by neighboring Argentina for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, briefly visited Bolivia on Tuesday, raising tensions between the countries. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi is wanted by Buenos Aires as an alleged mastermind of the bombing, which killed 85 people. Interpol issued a red notice for Vahidi in […]
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The chairman of the Natural Resources Defense of the Southern Region, Walter Aduviri said the Aymara nation “will not lift the strike” The Defence Committee of Natural Resources of the Southern Region of Puno continue its indefinite strike last night even though the executive authorities agreed to suspend for one year highland mining concessions and […]
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Tourism to the islands of the Uros, located on Lake Titicaca shared by Peru and Bolivia, fell on Sunday by anti-mining strike heeded in the border region of Puno. Read Article Reports are indicating that tourists are not able to enter Puno or Lake Titicaca and there is no movement between Peru and Bolivia.
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Research: The pilot sailed down a hill height and destabilized the aircraft. Operational failures caused the crash of the Cessna 341, Bolivia Air Force (FAB), in which six people, two soldiers and four officers from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, by its acronym English) – were burned to death last May […]
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Departmental Federation of Drivers of La Paz confirmed that require a hike in fares by up to 30 percent in the Social Summit of Public Transport, which is organized by the Mayor of La Paz. Read Article
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The Ministry of Education intends to use regulation to the educational units, to regulate the sale of junk food in and one block radius of tax and private schools. According to the Head of the Complementary Feeding of the ministry, Winston Canqui, this is a project that aims “to regulate the sale of unhealthy foods […]
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It is my second attempt to reach Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, home to a staggering array of flora and fauna. Years ago, I skipped a night bus to Campo Grande, the region’s capital, in order to spend more time exploring the waterfalls down south in Iguazu. The bus, I later found out, had […]
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Bolivia on Tuesday urged Argentina to clear up the blockage of a border river in Argentina’s northeastern Formosa province to save the livelihood of Bolivian fishermen. Bolivia says the blockage of the Pilcomayo River in the Argentine province has put local Bolivians in deep water as they depend almost exclusively on fisheries. Read Article
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Research shows that Incas built citadels such as Machu Picchu after the earlier achievement of agriculture at high altitudes through the use of llama dung. Manure from llama herds provided fertiliser which enabled corn to be cultivated at very high altitudes, allowing the Inca civilisation to flourish in the Andes and conquer much of South […]
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Mexican authorities on Thursday announced that a Bolivian pastor was sentenced to over 7 years in prison for the hijacking of an airplane in 2009. Josmar Flores Pereira was found guilty of taking control of a passenger airplane through threats and illegally kidnap people. He was sentenced to 7 years and seven months in prison. […]
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The head of a Bolivian energy company said he might sign a deal that would allow Russian gas company Gazprom to explore for hydrocarbons in the country. Read Article
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Deep in the Chiquitana tropical dry forest in southeast Bolivia, Noine Picanerai stands on a dirt road that cuts through lush woods. The 50,000-acre plot looks like a protected reserve. But, notes Picanerai, a woodsman in his 70s, “My people live off selling these trees.” Indeed, despite the forest’s pristine appearance, it’s a logging concession […]
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The Ministry of Culture is preparing a bill to amend some articles of the Civil Code, Family and Child, Children and Adolescents for can be taken as a surname, the mother or that you can choose from 18, if you want to change their surnames, so that is not always carry a standard first father. […]
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Six people, including one Asian and five Bolivian nationals were arrested at this time suspected of being part of a network card cloners debits and credits. With these apprehensions are eight captured by the same crime. The authorities showed a series of magnetic cards found in the hands of the accused.The alleged offenders were arrested […]
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The Peruvian government is sending a high-level commission to solve the social conflict that erupted last week in the southern Andean region of Puno, on the border with Bolivia, against the mining concessions. Read Article
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Bolivian President Evo Morales blasted the West’s double-standard policies on different international conflicts, and took Washington responsible for aggravated instability in the world. “The US is the main element of instability in the world which pursues its goals through using military, political and economic tools,” Morales said in a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister […]
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Recently, the United States and Colombia signed a long-awaited free trade agreement that is expected to boost job growth in both countries. Yet another recent trade deal that received scant attention is perhaps far more important to American interests. Read Article
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Rescued Lions Freed: Five Lions Rescued from Circuses in Bolivia by Animal Defenders International During the Record-Breaking Operation Lion Ark Walk into Colorado Sunshine. Read Article
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Planet Earth is beautiful and terrible with its natural and man-made objects. They are fascinating and scary at the same time. Some of these objects are holes in the ground, some man-made and others of natural origin. They all have one thing in common – nearly perfect circular shape and, therefore, are beautiful. However, the […]
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Bolivia is one of five South American countries with more cases of trafficking and smuggling, according to a study by the Organization of American States (OAS). Esta actividad delictiva creció en un 92,2% en el país en los últimos 10 años. This criminal activity grew by 92.2% in the country over the past 10 years. […]
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Bolivia was the site of a mass wedding with 350 couples married at the same time. The Andean mass wedding had all couples married in accordance to their customs and traditions of their Indian heritage. “Indian religious leaders presided over the wedding as did symbolically Pachamama — the earth deity of the Aymara and Quechua […]
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Millions of people living near the Andes Mountains face a significantly higher risk of a giant earthquake than previously thought, and such a temblor could be more than 10 times stronger than anything the region has expected in the past. Read Article
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Recently, the United States and Colombia signed a long-awaited free trade agreement that is expected to boost job growth in both countries. Yet another recent trade deal that received scant attention is perhaps far more important to American interests. Read Article
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Every year 37% of maternal deaths are recorded in health centers in Bolivia. According to data by the organization Visión Mundial, more than 17 000 kids and 600 mothers die annually in the country. A study conducted by the United Nations National Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme of the Population Fund (UNFPA), three main causes […]
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Her grandson, Luis Eduardo Siles, confirmed her death in an interview with Fides radio. He didn’t specify the cause but said she had been sick for weeks. Gueiler was only the second woman to lead a Latin American nation as president when she held the post for about eight months in 1979-80 between coup d’etats. […]
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In another important step towards winning Bolivia’s national sovereignty, the country’s Plurinational Assembly has announced the expulsion from Bolivia of USAID’s Environment and Economic Development (EED) program. Read Article
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Opposition from Bolivia’s independently organized miners stopped President Evo Morales from implementing plans to boost state control over the country’s mines Sunday, according to leading officials who were advocating takeovers of the country’s vast mineral wealth. Read Article
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A Bolivian couple who hadn’t been able to afford a formal wedding reception got some royal treatment Friday when they shared their day of matrimony with a British prince and his bride. Britain’s ambassador to Bolivia invited Fabianna Rivera, 24, and Alejandro Antezana, 29, to the embassy for a champagne toast to honor the marriage […]
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France’s Total has discovered a major gas field in south-eastern Bolivia that could initially produce 6.5 million cubic metres per day, local government and market sources said on Wednesday. Read Article
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The snow-capped mountains surrounding the poor Bolivian city of El Alto are considered to be gods by the indigenous Aymarans who live there. Camped in tents blanketed in purifying smoke, the Aymaran witch doctors – called Yatiri – make offerings to these gods and ask them to help predict the future. Read Article
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Anyone who has any doubt that central planning and corruption destroys an economy should head to Bolivia. The country is a classic example of a resource-rich nation whose economic potential has been squandered by socialism. Read Article
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Indigenous and campesino (small-scale farmer) movements in the Andean nation of Bolivia are on the verge of pushing through one of the most radical environmental bills in global history. The “Mother Earth” law under debate in Bolivia’s legislature will almost certainly be approved, as it has already been agreed to by the majority governing party, […]
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Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the body David Niño de Guzmán, a journalist who had been missing since 19 April, was found yesterday in La Paz. An explosive charge was apparently used to kill him. Residents in the area where the body was found heard an explosion in the early hours of […]
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The Maltese are well known for having big hearts. I experienced the truth of this statement during the past nine years, since I left home for missionary work in Tarija, Bolivia. The Maltese Carmelite Fathers in Bolivia are conveying hope and dignity to 60 per cent of the population through projects that encourage them how […]
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Bolivia’s plans to nationalize mines owned by Pan American Silver Corp (PAAS) and Swiss commodities trader Glencore International AG appear to have hit a snag, with workers’ unions at the two companies rejecting the move. The government has said it would not move forward with taking over the mines if the unions opposed it. Read […]
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President Evo Morales, an outspoken critic of Washington “imperialism”, has accepted financial aid to monitor efforts to eradicate coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The government accepted the $250,000 offer following setbacks to its counter-narcotics programme which prompted calls for a return of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Read Article
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Reporters and photographers working for several news media were attacked by police at Apacheta (20 km outside La Paz) on 15 April while covering clashes between police and members of the Bolivian Workers Federation (COB), which is demanding a wage increase. Read Article
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Bolivia under President Evo Morales is seeking a radical development model based on equality and environmental sustainability – and there are lessons we can all learn. Read Article
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The Deputy Minister for Tax Policy, Susana Ríos, said Wednesday that the vehicles that carry foreign plates acquire international fuel prices at service stations borders. Read Article
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About 30 stations borders will be expropriated and the hands of the Bolivian Fiscal Oilfields ( YPFB ), after the municipalities define the price of the same, after a thorough evaluation conditions found in each. The information was unveiled on Sunday the president of YPFB , Carlos Villegas, who recalled that the new Law on […]
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Bolivian officials said late last week the country’s natural gas reserves total 9.94 trillion ft³, far lower than estimates ranging from 12.8-26.7 trillion ft³ that have appeared in contradictory reports over the last five years. “Bolivia has passed from fiction to reality,” Carlos Villegas, president of state-run energy company YPFB, said. Read Article
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Three remain in custody Brigade sub-inspectors of Police Narcotics Investigation Iquique, for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery against two Bolivians. The incident occurred in the border sector Colchane far as 263 miles inland from Iquique. According to initial investigations, the police controlled the foreigners who were waiting for a bus and forced them […]
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The plan for a new 306 kilometer road between Chaparé’s Villa Tunari (Cochabamba) and San Ignacio de Moxos (Beni) near Trinidad has been approved. The new road will be financed by a $332 million dollar, 15 year loan from Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) and Bolivia will provide $83 million dollars of financing. Read Article
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Yesterday, the Bolivian anti-drug police (Felcn) shot a killed a 13 year old boy, Ricardo Cruz, and wounded five other teenagers near Yapacaní on the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz road. Family members of the victims said that the boys were traveling in a car when the police opened fire on them, apparanently confusing them with drug traffickers. […]
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Relations between the Movement to Socialism government and the country’s largest labor union have hit an all-time low today. The union (COB) bussed its members to La Paz yesterday and surrounded the Bolivian federal government buildings in a giant march, battling police and launching thunderous explosives (petardos). The COB was infuriated when the Bolivian government […]
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On Thursday the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday’s expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leaves the United States without ambassadorial relations in three South American countries – Bolivia and Venezuela being the other two – thus surpassing the Bush administration in its diplomatic problems in the […]
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“The pipeline will carry gas to Bolivia and seven provinces in Argentina, but we who live in Campo Durán, where the pipeline starts, will not have gas,” Julio Palavecino told IPS. Read Article
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Yesterday, Bolivian foreign minister David Choquehuanca accused Chile of not only failing to keep to the spirit of the 1904 Peace and Friendship Treat, but also of obstructing it by not allowing the free movement of passengers and freight from El Alto to the port of Arica, on the Chilean coast. Bolivian president Evo Morales […]
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Mining Minister Jose Pimentel, began yesterday at the National Customs responsibility to respond by leaving the country in September 2010 of a container loaded with 10.5 tonnes of zinc and shipped to Miami, United States, through Coz Igreda company Roberto Orlando and, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), containing 144 kilos of cocaine […]
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Work has resumed at Bolivia’s largest silver mine, San Cristobal, following a 12-day strike, the union and operating company said on Monday. San Cristobal, which also produces zinc and lead, is the world’s third-largest producer of silver and the sixth-largest producer of zinc, according to Japan’s Sumitomo Corp (8053.T), which owns the mine. Read Article
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Three Colombian citizens were arrested today by the Special Force against Drug Trafficking (FELCN). The foreigners are investigated for alleged laundering of illicit proceeds in Bolivia. The operation which was led by prosecutor Marina Flores was held in a carpentry shop located between lanes 4 and 5 of the Virgin of Luján Avenue. On site, […]
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Potosi – A group of Indians made a vigil at the mine Amayapampa demanding labor sources to benefit from financial resources generated by the gold deposit. The vigil began Tuesday morning and the top leaders moved to the seat of government in order to talk to the Mining Minister Jose Pimentel. Read Article
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Inmates of penal Obrajes Chonchocoro Miraflores, La Paz, San Pedro, Oruro, San Roque, Chuquisaca, and Cantumarca, Potosi, overcrowded yesterday its measures of pressure to declare dry hunger strike because the Government signed an agreement to increase prediarios of 5.50 to 10 bolivianos. Read Article
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An ongoing labor strike has forced Bolivia’s San Cristobal mine to halt output and exports of silver, zinc and lead, and the conflict will likely persist since company managers and union leaders have not begun formal talks. Read Article
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The director of the Ministry of Hydrocarbons Conversion, Daniel Tapia, said Tuesday it approved more than 20 workshops in the city of La Paz, to start the conversion process at least 3,000 motor Natural Gas (CNG). Read Article
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The departments of Santa Cruz, Tarija and Chuquisaca increased the level of infestation (invasion of a living organism by agents external or internal parasites) with vinchucas more than one percent between 2009 and 2010, according to the head of the National Chagas Institute. Read Article
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The third round of a Bolivian Ministry of Health program to vaccinate young girls against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) began yesterday. HPV can lead to cervical cancer if left untreated, and, according to the World Health Organization, approximately 260,000 women worldwide die from the disease every year. Read Article
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As demonstrated by Joseph, this office is not exclusive to women, because for every 19 households there is a man who exercises that work for all, time is the worst enemy because they have cooking, cleaning, ironing and perform daily chores in homes of their employers. Joseph lives in Potosí, a department that, like Beni, […]
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Police forces of Bolivia and Brazil left yesterday resulted in the seizure of more than two tons of coca paste and cocaine hydrochloride, four buildings, six firearms and 36 vehicles and seized 35 people, among Ecuadorians, Colombians, Brazilians and Bolivians. Read Article
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Bolivia’s Health Ministry Tuesday called on its people to keep vigilant against any symptoms of dengue after 23 fatalities and 4,000 cases of infection were reported nationwide in recent days. Most cases have concentrated in the Amazon region of the South American country, with the highest numbers registered in the provinces of Beni and Santa […]
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The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales decided after a meeting with social organizations, call former presidents and foreign ministers who worked in the maritime claim against Chile to discuss the strategy that drives the government to regain sovereign access to the Pacific. “It’s important to know the contributions of these former officials who played a […]
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Uruguay Bolivia supported with respect to an amendment to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which criminalize the chewing of coca leaf. In its participation in the 54 th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, United Nations, Uruguay, Bolivia supported the intention to amend the article of the Convention which states that coca chewing […]
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The influence of economic power in the justice system is a deep and ongoing problem in Bolivia, Denis Racicot, a representative of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights to Bolivia, said yesterday. “One of the current problems that comes into play for an ordinary citizen regarding access to justice, and the ability to […]
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Friday police rescued 10 children in Bolivia, obliged to forced labor in the international pass-Villazón La Quiaca, northern Argentina. Young people between 11 and 17 were used to transport illegal goods between southern Bolivia and the nation. The operation, which were also arrested five men and a Bolivian woman, was conducted by the Gendarmerie, Argentina […]
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The presence of fleas, scabies, hives and other skin conditions are part of the problems encountered in the shelters where they shelter the victims of the megadeslizamiento, according to Deputy Health Minister Martin Maturano. Read Article
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The five members(one charged with dereliction of duty) of the police are accused of the death of Fidel Mario Hernani and David Callisaya Mamani, who died between 7 and 8 May 2010 during the social conflicts in that municipality yungueño by the installation of a citrus processing plant. Read Article
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Case: before using physical force. Now express kidnappers prefer to psychologically intimidate victims. Police advised foreign and domestic visitors not to enter into conversation with strangers to avoid express kidnappings and robberies in La Paz. Special Force against Crime (FELCC), said the modus operandi of the robbers changed after a German visitor was a victim […]
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the Andes which is increasingly providing the garnish on fashionable Western dinner plates. But while demand for quinoa has given a lifeline to Bolivia’s farmers, the native population, no longer able to afford a staple of the national diet, is now facing the threat of malnutrition. Read Article
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BOLIVIAN company UNAGRO will build a modern Brazil nut processing plant in Tambopata in Madre de Dios, Peru producing shelled, dehydrated and specially selected products. Investment in the plant, which will begin operating in October 2011, has totalled USD6.0 million. Read Article – Registration Required
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There is still no apparent solution to the unsatisfied demand for drinking water in Cochabamba, 11 years after this central Bolivian city made international headlines with a popular uprising that halted the privatisation of water service. Only 326,504 people, representing 48 percent of the population of Cochabamba, have piped water service, and the poorest are […]
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Bolivia has said it will take Chile to international courts to try to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a war 132 years ago. President Evo Morales said Chile had failed to respond to a deadline he had set for progress in negotiations. Read Article
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Lithium and lithium carbonate markets are set to grow in Latin America with the commissioning of a new lithium carbonate processing plant in Argentina and plans by Bolivia to use Iranian help in exploiting its deposits of the mineral. Read Article
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The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, called a general strike total failure of 48 hours that began on Monday the Central Obrera largest Latin American country to protest the wage inremento decreed 10 per cent last month, and is characterized by low attendance. Read Article
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Bolivian authorities say a commercial plane (TAM Airlines) carrying 33 passengers touched down on its belly after its landing gear failed to open properly. Read Article
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Industrialist Naveen Jindal led Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) today said it will start iron ore exports from Bolivia’s El Mutun mines in next 2-3 months. “We will begin the exports in this calender year… In next 2-3 months, it will begin in smaller quantity,” JSPL Vice Chairman and Managing Director Naveen Jindal told reporters […]
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Yesterday during evening hours a omnibuss (combi) from the compnay Porvenir in route from Copacabana Bolivia to Cusco, Peru crashed into a parked truck in the middle of the highway at km 1389.5(near Acora), not displaying emergency lights. Ten tourists were injured and the tour guide who was in the copilot seat died of his […]
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Bolivian president Evo Morales has accused the United States and the United Nations of conspiring to defame his government in two drug reports. He said criticism over Bolivia’s handling of the war on drugs were part of a strategy to falsely link his government to drug trafficking. Read Report
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Crossing the world’s largest salt desert is a well-marked signpost on the Gringo Trail. Travellers typically use it to journey from Bolivia into the Chilean Atacama, or vice versa. There’s certainly a lot of transport involved. It’s a four-hour bus ride from La Paz to Oruro, and then a seven-hour train to Uyuni, an outpost […]
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The Minister of Defence of Bolivia, Ruben Saavedra, and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ma Xiaotian han have signed a military cooperation agreement which includes, inter alia, the provision of communications equipment and the exchange of officers and military trainees. Read Article
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Bolivian authorities have begun work to restore potable water service in capital La Paz following the mudslide that destroyed part of the city on February 27. The disaster forced water utility Epsas to suspend water service to 80,000 residents in 41 neighborhoods to avoid further mudslides and damage to its pipelines. Read Article
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Evacuation efforts are underway in Bolivia following destructions caused by recent landslides, as entire neighborhoods have been buried in capital La Paz. Seven neighborhoods in the Bolivian capital have reportedly disappeared entirely under the landslides.Read Article
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TV and radio journalist Peter Deselaers has been in Bolivia on behalf of DW-AKADEMIE since mid-2010. He talks about the media situation there and his work in this Andean country. Read Article
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Brazil’s famous Carnival celebration may steal the world’s attention, but an equally riveting spectacle in Bolivia this week melds indigenous and Christian traditions, and has the devil at the centre of the action. Bolivia’s Carnival of Oruro is second only to that of Rio de Janeiro among the world’s riotous celebrations in the days preceding […]
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Officials in Bolivia say heavy rains in the capital have caused mudslides that have destroyed at least 400 homes. Government officials say the mudslides that began Saturday are the worst La Paz has experienced. Read Article
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A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia’s counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring. Read Article
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Seven Areas to Be on Alert in La Paz and Bolivia for thieves Plaza San Francisco Sectors that border calle Sagárnaga Bus terminal Copacabana in front of the general cemetery Terminal de trufis (vans) Terminal de buses – La Paz Cruce de la avenidas Juan Pablo 11 y La Paz along with El Alto-terminal de […]
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0.70 to 8 percent of Bolivians agree with re-election of Evo Morales for a third term from 2015 to 2020, according to a survey released on Tuesday in La Paz. The survey was conducted by the Fides radio group 12 and February 13, interviewing 400 people in ten districts of La Paz, Bolivia’s seat of […]
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An operation conducted by authorities of the National Police of Peru allowed the seizure of sheets in Bolivian currency counterfeit bills in a garage, where they also discovered that counterfeiters were in possession of over four million U.S. dollars in $100 denominations, According to a report by Radio Programas del Peru (RPP), the counterfeit bills […]
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Last week I got caught in a flash flood in the streets of Quillacollo AND a bloqueo/road-block thrown up by transportistas demanding a better chunk of pay– both at the same time. So — after an hour of going nowhere, brown water lapping at my engine, and now stuck back in the casita at El […]
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Thousands of people have rallied in La Paz, Bolivia to demand higher salaries as the cost of food and fuel increases. Unions led Friday’s demonstrators, who marched in the streets of the capital to protest the cost of living. Some of the protesters set off sticks of dynamite while taking part in the fifth day […]
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