Today and tomorrow bus and taxi drivers in La Paz are hunger striking and blocking roads in protest of a new law they consider grossly unjust. What possible new law could incite such a reaction you ask? A law which would revoke the drivers licenses of people caught driving drunk.
That´s right, in a country in which hundreds of people needlessly die in traffic accidents every year (most of them in the exact "intoxicated bus driver" incidents the new law aims to stop), bus unions are picketing and bringing the national transportation system to a stop for two days in an attempt to maintain their right to drive drunk.
And I thought the tea-partiers in the US were crazy.
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