Census Day in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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Today is the census in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I am not allowed out of my hotel because there is a 24 hour curfew for the city. It is eerie; this normally bustling city with cars jamming the street is quiet and no one is walking about. The television says that everyone is to remain at home with their families and the census takers will go from house to house to count the population. The hotel is serving food so I’m not starving.

So what am I doing today? Catching up on emails, doing accounting type things on line, watching TV—these are the things I can do confined in the Hotel Alaska on Calle Florida in Santa Cruz on the census day.

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Photos

Census Day in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
This is Calle Florida in front of the hotel on the day of the census when there is a 24 hour curfew in the city and streets are absolutely empty.

In Front of Aquinas University of Medicine
One of the many Universities in Santa Cruz.