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Weekly Report - 20 October 2016 (WR-16-41)

BOLIVIA: A new source of tension with the unions

Earlier this month the left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government led by President Evo Morales announced that it would not decree payment of a second annual pay bonus (aguinaldo) as a result of insufficient growth. The announcement, which is threatening fresh unrest with the main umbrella union, Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), is the latest sign of the continued domestic economic slowdown, caused in part by the fall in international commodity prices.

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