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  • 22
    Jun
    2012
    1:25pm, EDT

    Bolivian police destroy La Paz headquarters demanding salary increase

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    Police officers on strike vandalize the police intelligence headquarters and burn documents in La Paz, on June 22, during a police strike demanding a 70 percent salary increase. At least three people were injured when striking Bolivian police officers clashed with an anti-riot brigade in downtown La Paz Thursday, local media reported.

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    Police officers on strike stand a protest in front of the Palacio Quemado presidential house in La Paz, on June 22, during a police strike demanding a 70 percent salary increase. At least three people were injured when striking Bolivian police officers clashed with an anti-riot brigade in downtown La Paz Thursday, local media reported.

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    Police officers on strike vandalize the police intelligence headquarters and burn documents in La Paz, on June 22, during a police strike demanding a 70 percent salary increase. At least three people were injured when striking Bolivian police officers clashed with an anti-riot brigade in downtown La Paz Thursday, local media reported.

    AP reports -- A mutiny by rank-and-file Bolivian police demanding wage increases has spread across the nation, with about 4,000 officers occupying barracks.

    Protesters sacked and set fire to furniture and documents in one police office in La Paz on Friday but the protest otherwise appeared peaceful.

    Read the full story.

    Aizar Raldes / AFP - Getty Images

    Police officers on strike vandalize the police intelligence headquarters and burn documents in La Paz, on June 22, during a police strike demanding a 70 percent salary increase. At least three people were injured when striking Bolivian police officers clashed with an anti-riot brigade in downtown La Paz Thursday, local media reported.

    Juan Karita / AP

    Police demanding salary increases shout slogans on the roof of a police internal affairs building that was sacked and its content burned, in La Paz, Bolivia, on June 22. Protesters were demanding salaries on par with soldiers and a pension equal to 100 percent of their salaries. Bolivian police earn about $144 a month and were not appeased by a 7 percent government-decreed wage increase this year.

    Juan Karita / AP

    An official police photo burns atop a bonfire of burning documents and computers outside a police internal affairs building, in La Paz, Bolivia, on June 22. Protesting police officers sacked the offices, setting its contents on fire, demanding salaries on par with soldiers and a pension equal to 100 percent of their salaries. Bolivian police earn about $144 a month and were not appeased by a 7 percent government-decreed wage increase this year.

     

    36 comments

    Good for them. Its about time people stopped taking crap from their governments. I guarantee if you skimmed 5% off the top of the politicians salary, it would be more than enough to allow for a raise for the police officers. And i imagine being a cop in Bolivia isn't the safest job in the world eith …

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  • 23
    Feb
    2012
    7:12pm, EST

    Physically disabled protesters clash with riot police in Bolivia over government benefits

    Photos by David Mercado / Reuters

    Physically disabled people clash with riot police in La Paz, Bolivia on Feb. 23, 2012. Hundreds of physically disabled people arrived in La Paz on Thursday after completing a protest march of 994 miles to demand that Bolivia's government offer support in the form of $434 payment to each physically disabled Bolivian, according to local media.

    A physically disabled man tries to block a police vehicle during clashes with riot police in the center of La Paz on Thursday.

    A wheelchair-bound woman is helped after being affected by tear gas during clashes with riot police.

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    52 comments

    Those handicapped wimps in Bolivia think they have it tough? Here in the US it's much worse than that! Our president is trying to get us affordable health care! That makes him 10 times worse than the riot police beating up leggless people in Bolivia.

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  • 6
    Dec
    2011
    8:04pm, EST

    Flesh-eating piranhas kill man in Bolivia

    By The Associated Press

    Authorities say piranhas attacked and killed a young man who leaped into a river infested with the flesh-eating fish in northeastern Bolivia.

    Daniel Cayaya is a police official in the small city of Guayaramerin. He tells The Associated Press that the 18-year-old man was drunk when he jumped out of a canoe in the nearby town of Rosario del Yata, 400 miles north of the capital of La Paz.

    Cayaya says the man bled to death after the attack, which occurred last Thursday. First word of the incident emerged Tuesday, when it was reported by the Erbol radio station.

    Cayaya says the police suspect suicide because the man was a fisherman in the region who knew the Yata river well.

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    When I read the headline "Flesh Eating Piranhas kill man in Bolivia" I thought.... . "WHAT THE HECK IS NANCY PELOSI DOING IN BOLIVIA?"

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