Constituent assembly opens

The Constituent Assembly opened yesterday. The new President of the CA is Sylvia Lazarte. She was a leader of the cocaleros like Evo and she gave a barn burner of a speech calling on the whole country to support equality for women. She said that men are making progress in Bolivia but not women. I was mistaken yesterday about the number of women in the Constituent Assembly. It is actually about 80 out of 233, which is better than our Parliament but women still are quite behind her and seems like Sylvia is going to use her position to push quite hard for women´s equality.

The picture is of one of the many delegations of indigenous people marching in La Marcha del Pueblo at the opening of the Constituent Assembly