Well…actually sewed their lips shut in an act of protest, after the government shut down a number brothels and bars last week. The closures were due to angry protests from residents upset over the brothels rowdyness led to violence last week. Some 10 woman angered by the governments action — brothels are legal in Bolivia — went extreme by using regular sewing thread to perform the act. This after going on hunger strike for the past week.
Some details:
We are fighting for the right to work and for our families’ survival,” Lily Cortez, leader of the El Alto Association of Nighttime Workers, told local television.
“Tomorrow we will bury ourselves alive if we are not immediately heard. The mayor will have his conscience to answer to if there are any grave consequences, such as the death of my comrades,” Cortez said.
Student activists who want the bars and brothels permanently shut down were also on a hunger strike, along with the leaders of an association representing bars, restaurants and karaoke establishments.
Hmm. Sounds like a well-educated, industrialized country to me. Smart folk. I guess not eating and sewing things together tends to solve all the countries ills.
I heard a Bolivian trade representative sewed his finger up his nose to protest U.S. tariffs on cotton imports. (Get it….picking, cotton, nose, finger….he, he, he!)
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