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Juan Claudio Lechin Apacheta: People and enemy unions

Juan Claudio Lechin

Peoples and unions enemies

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Recently, the Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera accused the Central Obrera Boliviana to be in the "ideological current restoration of the right" and seeking the ouster of President Morales.

texture Jacobin This language was the note of color to yield to the demand of thousands of workers mobilized for twelve days tenacious protests over rising salaries. In February, at the beginning of the negotiations, Morales said, with disdain, that the orders of the Central Obrera caused her laughter. " It was a poignant irony for a people who allowed his landslide victory four years and that gave him his unconditional loyalty. But beyond gratitude, between diptych and irony, is evidence of a severe economic crisis in Bolivia.

Since 2006, the government of Morales was blessed with high mineral prices which allowed deliver bonuses straight to the poorest getting massive support not seen since the 1952 revolution . He also had surgery to measuring inflation, decreasing the incidence of essential items in the basket, so that while prices of potatoes and rice rose steadily, inflation Bolivia was the first world.

also subsidized gasoline, Venezuela took a lot of debt and a democratization of the drug occurred. It is true that a number of industries closed by government pressure to generate unemployment and meager budget execution of 35%, revealed an inefficient government.

But the abundance of silver and the desire to make policy and twist the arm of the story overshadowed the macroeconomic trifles which, like termites, and just quietly peeled were once they had pierced the body of the economy . The recent Christmas the government brought this news as this Trojan.

Trusting the insistent propaganda of the "change process" and the popular support to the "brother Evo", the government issued a 80% rise in petrol to finance the many gaps in prosperity without real lift. An explosive protest tranversalizando social sectors in a flash broke the charm popular with the Indian president.

He had to appear before the cameras to back the measure, without recovering the popular devotion or to finance the deficit. If no funding before will not now cover 12% of salary increase just signed with the Central Obrera Boliviana. And the surgery made inflation statistics no longer saves the voluminous flood numbers.

The people and the unions tend to be enemies when they are in favor. Morales himself was accused of destabilizing as a coca farmer. Now, bear in mind the wisdom of each person: the Bolivian people comfort with its centenary street protests and President Morales with a few years in power. It seems that a frontal confrontation with the disappointed people, is the least desirable for any government.

Courtesy: El Comercio Peru