The social conflicts intensified with the paralization in the bolivian economy, translated in a strike and manifistations, in a country that is one of the pooorest in South America.
Bolivia is facing this friday the second strike in less then two months against the increase of prices in food and public transportation.
Cochamba City, the third largest in the country, has its public schools closed, hospitals reduced to emergencies and public transportion scarce or nonexistent. The capital, La Paz, is hampered by public discontent. The mobilization is carried out by the powerful union strength Bolivian Workers Central and its leaders demand wage increases to pay off the rising prices of food and vital services such as transportation.
The increase in prices is very significant in a country where, according to the 2010 United Nations Program for Development, six in ten people live in poverty and three in ten will not have enough to eat. The last large-scale mobilization against prices in Bolivia, December 30, ended in violence, making fifteen wounded.
Nowadays, with a price increase of around 30 per cent in relation to transport and 40 percent sugar, Evo Morales maintains that the rise in 2011 will not be less than inflation in 2010. The Bolivian President is faced with the longest and most profound social and economic crisis since coming to power in 2006.
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