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Diego Armando Flores
Age: 18
Home: La Paz, Bolivia
Diego’s painting Flags at Dawn is one of 15 murals decorating Bolivia’s capital city La Paz. The murals were chosen from more than 150 entries in the Walls that Speak competition set up to highlight social and economic injustice in Bolivia.

Privatisation, Bolivia’s burgeoning debt and political corruption are some of the themes portrayed in the murals.
Filed in: Latin America & the Caribbean, Trade

The writing on the wall

Flags at Dawn was painted by Diego, along with classmates Marianela Mendoza and Rosario Villareal from the Bolivia IV Secondary School in La Paz
Walls that Speak is a competition run by Fundación Solón, an organisation set up by Bolivian muralist Walter Solon whose paintings championed popular movements struggling against political and economic injustice
The murals are a protest against the imposition of free trade policies in Bolivia which have been widely criticised for hurting the poor

Bolivia

Bolivia
population: 8.8 million
population living in poverty: 63%
debt service (as % exports and foreign income): 20%

Filed in: Latin America & the Caribbean, Trade