[This is a summary of an informal translation by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. The full report in Spanish is available here]. “We don’t want foreigners abusing us nor attacking working peoples,” “Stop discrimination, this is Bolivia, not China” (Messages in the banners by workers protesting Sinohydro, Los Tiempos newspaper, 13/01/2016)…In the past five years, the presence of Chinese companies in Bolivia increased notably; this happened by means of millionaire contracts signed with the Bolivian State in a scenario of the national government’s openness to have the presence of these companies, to implement a significant number of public works. Companies and joint ventures like Sinohydro, CAMC Engeneering Co. Ltd. Bolivian Branch, Railway and Sinosteel, are currently responsible for the construction of roads, the San Jose hydroelectric plant, the construction of an industrial sugar facility in San Buenaventura, the construction of an industrial Potasium Salts facility, and of a steel factory of El Mutun, as well as the building of railroads and brides, amongst the most important works…The struggles of Bolivian workers in two projects by Chinese Sinohydro in Bolivia unveiled that labour rights are not respected by this firm, creating thus social conflicts that have not been overcame due to the week institutional capacity of the current administration…