http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/gas_2584.jsp Comments for "Bolivia in revolt, Nick Buxton " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/gas_2584.jsp <p> “While the poor don’t have food, the rich won’t have peace,” reads the graffiti scrawled onto the wall adjoining the dual carriageway that sweeps breathlessly from one of the world’s highest airports into Bolivia’s <a href="http://unix.dfn.org/images/maps/samericaLRG.gif" target="_blank">Andean</a> city of La Paz. </p> <p> In front of the graffiti lie six smashed-up tollbooths, destroyed by <a href="http://www.latinpetroleum.com/article_4260.shtml" target="_blank">protestors</a> who have marched almost daily in May 2005 the eleven kilometres from the impoverished city of El Alto towards the seat of government in the capital, La Paz. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/gas_2584.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/gas_2584.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/gas_2584.jsp#comment latin america democracy &amp; power Creative Commons normal Nick Buxton politics of protest the americas Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100 2584 at http://www.opendemocracy.net