Bolivia clears anti-government roadblocks after emergency decree, as patrol plane crash kills 6
Police and military began clearing highways as the state of emergency took hold, while an Air Force patrol crash killed six.
- On Sunday, the Legislative Assembly overwhelmingly ratified a state of emergency declared by Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, authorizing security forces to clear weeks-long anti-government roadblocks that had isolated major cities.
- Protests lasting more than 50 days stem from economic distress and agrarian reform opposition, though the government claims former President Evo Morales instigated the unrest to destabilize the administration.
- Business groups estimate losses exceeding $2 billion, while Luis Larrea, president of the Paz Departmental Medical Association, reported patients died inside ambulances, warning, "We're running out of oxygen."
- While most highways cleared Sunday during the Andean-Amazonian New Year, blockades persist in the Chapare region, maintained by coca growers' unions allied with Morales.
- Although the emergency declaration lasts 90 days, analysts warn that emergency powers could deepen unrest if the government fails to address the underlying economic causes fueling the protests.
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La Paz., Peasants who tried to retake the protests against the government of the president of Bolivia, conservative Rodrigo Paz, faced yesterday with police in the region of Cochabamba, bastion of former president Evo Morales, amid the state of emergency, reported the Afp
The aircraft was found in a sector called Cerro Sayari, about 220 kilometers east of La Paz.
6 killed in Bolivia military jet crash as government makes progress on protests
Bolivia recorded progress in easing a 50-day protest crisis as several key roadblocks were lifted following a state of emergency. However, the gains were overshadowed by a military support flight crash in the Andes that killed six people, authorities said.
Six people died, Sunday, following the crash of a plane by the Bolivian Air Force in a mountainous area of the "Cochabamba" administration in central Bolivia, during a civil action support trip, as announced by the Bolivian army. In a statement, the Bolivian Air Force stated that the plane was used to transport and assist cancer patients, within the framework of its social assistance and civil work programmes throughout the country.
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