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BOLIVIA’S PRESIDENT EVO Morales showed his support for the country’s inaugural National Day of the Pedestrian on Sunday by jogging to work.
The South American country banned all motorised vehicles, including public transport, from cities yesterday, reports the BBC.
The initiative was taken to raise awareness about the environment, the Bolivian government said.
Morales was pictured jogging in La Paz surrounded by bodyguards who were also decked out in their running gear. He ran the full 6km from the official presidential residence to government headquarters.
His government has come in for criticism lately as it plans to build a highway through the Amazon rainforest. Officials hope that yesterday’s efforts will remind people that Morales is known to be an advocate of environmental issued.
According to authorities, two millon cars were taken off the streets yesterday, highlighting Bolivia’s commitment to “Mother Nature”.
Latin American news channel NTN24 reported that the streets were turned into playgrounds for pedestrians who reclaimed the streets.
Artists, street performers and exercise instructors set up stalls on Sunday, while in La Paz, some pedestrians dressed up as zebras and played hopscotch.
Bolivia’s National Day of the Pedestrian has been made an annual event and will occure on the first Sunday of September each year.
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What an awful situation in a truly failed country.
Have you been there?
No different to the appalling atrocities that are carried out in Syria under our noses by Western backed “moderate” rebels.
Frank, can you not just say that it’s bad?
Or should I refer to you as abbilitive?
Declan Noonan both are bad but I must admit that the one that I mentioned is far more appalling than the other because it has been carried out in the name of democracy by a so called civilized nation.
Nobody has to go there to know what it’s like! Yes of course there are good parts like anywhere else. Slowly the cartels will take over them too! It’s people like you that know nothing about Mexico and it’s horrific violence.
Go google Mexican drug cartel images and come back here!! The tourist areas are safe the rest isn’t! When the cops are part of the problem what hope do they have prey tell.
I would not go to Mexico, even as a corpse….
Outside of the gated areas, it’s a cesspit of a country.
Probably not,but he is able to read
Humanity at its most depraved
Mexico is mental.
Homicide rate is something like 1 in 5000. In ireland that would be close to 1000 people a year.
Tragic. Young innocent aspiring students lives savagely taken away by sick, evil creatures
That’s what’s truly scary. Those were just students. The majority of killings are drug related. This wasn’t. Very strange for Mexico. Nothing shocks me over there but that really does. These new bodies will be drug related. The note says it all. The poor students were really shocking and very sad. The rest,they just kill each other over drugs and areas. Nothing new really.
We must keep these people out of Europe. All non EU immigration must be severely curtailed.
There is no z in organised. Petty and off topic i know but im not sure whats worse journalists who cant proof read or journalists who turn the country location to ireland.
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