This discourse has begun to fray around the edges with the emergence of social conflicts: highways and roads barricaded to demand the unmet social services such as water and roads, protests in free trade zones, land takeovers, rebellions by interurban transportation users against fare rises by providers who in turn are affected by the high cost of gas and diesel… Furthermore, a growing number of people feel defenseless vis-à-vis the state institutions and see obvious evidence of the inequalities between those who live under the government’s protective shade and those toiling to survive like raisins in the sun.
Comienzan a surgir conflictos sociales: tranques en carreteras y caminos, por prestaciones no cumplidas, por agua, por caminos, protestas en zonas francas, tomas de tierras, usuarios del transporte interurbano en rebeldía ante transportistas afectados por el alto costo de la gasolina…Crece el número de quienes se perciben indefensos ante las instituciones y el de quienes comprueban las desigualdades evidentes entre quienes viven a la sombra del gobierno y quienes sobreviven a pleno sol.