Vote SI or No..... the choice is yours... but the fireworks will happen eitherway!

Vote SI or No..... the choice is yours... but the fireworks will happen eitherway!

Sometimes a vote comes and goes with little interest by the public in the UK, for example a referendum on the single currency or whether or not Gordon Brown should be Prime Minister (Sorry the later never occurred). Still many people would not have noticed either way.

This is certainly not the case in Bolivia... and in this instance an imminent vote that appears to be on the face of it a low level attempt to alter the constitution and allow the unlimited reign of power for admittedly the first truly indigenous leader of Bolivia has stirred the public. Just for a moment bear in mind all the issues that Bolivia has, then imagine a place like Latin America that likes to mix its Politics with both fiestas and explosions, and you soon realise this one was going to be contentious.

Back in Sept 2008 another vote bought about a hostile reaction and the police and military needed to protect the seats of power in various locations https://www.economist.com/research/backgrounders/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12260915. However with such a significant divide between societies haves and have not´s then it is easy to understand that voting in Bolivia is as important to the people as food and shelter. What ever unfolds over the next 7 days in the final push for votes, one thing is certainly going to happen and that is a 24hr curfew on transport of people before the election and it will last until 48hrs afterwards. Civil interest in the government actions, who would have thought this would be more alive and well in South America than in our western economies.

Of course you don´t have to believe what I say just have a look at this weeks economist... a passport to utopia... http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12974135