Country Rating: 3

  • Regular violation of rights

  • Government and/or companies are regularly interfering in collective labour rights or are failling to fully guarantee important aspects of these rights. There are deficiencies in laws and/or certain practices which make frequent violations possible.

Clash between Bolivian police and union protesters: At least seven people were injured on 6 May 2013, in a clash between groups of demonstrators and Bolivian police, who used tear gas to clear one of the highways cut off by workers affiliated with the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB). The Deputy Interior Minister, Jorge Perez, said at a press conference that three of the injured were police and four were demonstrators who were participating in the protest the union staged near the central city of Cochabamba. Police arrested 37 people in the confrontation, but they were released a few hours later after being identified and processed. The COB led the blockades on Monday and staged a hunger strike in state-run hospitals to demand that President Evo Morales implement changes in the pension law to improve the income of retirees.

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