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Weekly Report - 20 September 2005
BOLIVIA: Obtaining tax reform via roadblocks
In early September Bolivia's local governments and universities resorted to their preferred instruments of social and political protest - roadblocks and demonstrations, backed up by a hunger strike - to secure something that congress appeared unwilling or unable to deliver: a reallocation of the revenues from the new tax on oil and gas production, introduced in May through the new hydrocarbons law.
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