Published 23.00
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz cuts his own and all his ministers’ salaries by 50 percent. The move is an attempt to curb the demonstrations that have shaken the country for weeks.
Rodrigo Paz tried last week to meet the protesters with a cabinet reshuffle, but that move does not appear to have succeeded. Nor has a promise to the indigenous population helped, and last Saturday police and demonstrators clashed for several hours.
Now Paz is lowering his own salary to the equivalent of roughly 16,000 kroner a month after saying on Argentinian television that he is prepared for far-reaching changes but that “everything has a limit”.
The demonstrators have demanded wage increases, economic stability and an end to the privatization of state-owned companies.
Centrist politician Rodrigo Paz took office last November after 20 years of left-wing rule in Bolivia.
