Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s embattled president who you might remember from my recent article ‘the Bolivian people rise up and say ‘No’ as the US just tried to kidnap former president Evo Morales’, stood before the cameras on Monday and announced that he would slash his own salary by 50%.
How magnanimous of this millionaire!
Not only that but his ministers would follow suit, his monthly pay dropping from around $3,600 to roughly $1,800. A gesture, he called it.
The people of El Alto, La Paz, and the blockaded highways of the Andes had a different word for it. They called it…nada. Nothing.
And this is because this uprising was never about one man’s salary. It was never about a few thousand dollars, or austerity measures, or any of the other neoliberal band-aids that Paz has been desperately slapping on a wound that requires surgery. The people of Bolivia do not want a pay cut. They want the government to leave post haste.
Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11750413
Americans need to take lessons from the people of Bolivia. When they realized the US was coming to kidnap their beloved ex-president, the locals took over all the airports, so the American planes couldn’t land, then they blockaded everything else.
Wake up.
s adore their Führer. If they didn’t, Nazicans would have chandelier him already.
Step down and trigger new elections?
