Mother’s Hunger Strike Claims Life of Her Baby
From Reuters
LA PAZ, Bolivia —
A 7-month-old Bolivian baby died of malnutrition on Wednesday night, the victim of her mother’s hunger strike to press the government to provide work for her husband, a human rights official said Thursday.
The official said the mother of Maria Isabel Quispe, one of more than 100 women fasting to demand jobs for ex-miners, was suffering from advanced anemia and could not provide her nursing child with sufficient nourishment.
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