La Paz__ The Bolivian department of Chuquisaca will celebrate today the 208 anniversary of the first cry for freedom in Latin America, with important economic projections derived from the natural resources and public investment, Prensa Latina reports.

During the honorary session of the Departmental Legislative Assembly and Municipal Council in the International Center of Conventions and Culture of the city of Sucre, the current president Álvaro García Linera asked to design the Chuquisaca of the XXI century with the new incomes.

According to García Linera, in the epoch of neoliberal governments, Chuquisaca was Bolivia's second poorest department, with terrible rates of poverty and abandonment, difficult access, problems of air transportation and much urban and rural indigence.

The average growth of the economy in the 1980s and 1990s was one percent and the population increased at a rate of 2.5 percent, which meant that each year the Chuquicaseños became more impoverished and had fewer resources, he added.

Today economic growth is 5.5 percent on average and the salary went from 700 dollars a year to 2,800, four times more than a decade ago, he said.

In addition, extreme poverty fell from 69 to 28 percentage points, a revealing sign of the profound changes that the department lives, he said.

The session preceded the homage to the Liberty Bell in the Basilica Minor of San Francisco, where the judicial authorities joined.

The first libertarian cry of America took place on May 25, 1809 in the city of Chuquisaca (at the moment Sucre), pertaining to the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata.

On that day, the Royal Audiencia de Charcas, with the support of the university cloister and independence sectors, deposed the governor and formed a governing body.

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