On this day, 17 May 1965, in reaction to a general strike the right wing Bolivian military dictatorship declared a state of siege and launched an all-out war on the organised working class. They also passed a series of laws dismantling labour unions and calling up all Bolivians aged 19 to 50 into the service of the military. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1718791658305977/?type=3