The World - News from March 25, 1988

More than 50,000 Bolivians staged what was apparently the biggest demonstration yet against the center-right administration of President Victor Paz Estenssoro in the capital of La Paz. The demonstrators, protesting government proposals to change the country’s health and education system, burned a U.S. flag and an effigy of the 80-year-old Bolivian leader. Police made no arrests. The size of the crowd was believed bigger than any previous protest against Paz, who has ruled for the last 32 months. The protest was called by the Bolivian Workers’ Center, grouping most of the country’s trade unions, which opposes decentralization plans.