Bolivia on the Brink of the Abyss: Behind the Blockades, Men Who Cannot Afford Peace
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La Paz., Police clashed yesterday with protesters during the operation “Humanitarian Corridor of the White Flags” to open roads and allow the passage of food to the political capital of Bolivia, in the midst of a wave of protests against President Rodrigo Paz, who insisted on calling for dialogue. Minister of Public Works Mauricio Zamora, who headed the caravan, said they failed to advance beyond Copata due to attacks with stones and dynamite.
This Saturday, while Bolivia's Minister of Public Works was leading a humanitarian caravan waving white flags along the La Paz-Oruro highway, he was ambushed — not once, but twice — by demonstrators and protesters armed with dynamite.
Between police operations to unblock and reinstate roadblocks, Bolivia's Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers called for "massification" of the blockade and other measures at the national level.
A strong military and police operation aimed at freeing Bolivia’s main trunk roads resulted on Saturday in violent clashes between security forces and civilians. Despite the deployment of law enforcement, the demonstrators managed to reinstall pickets on the roads, consolidating a measure of force that is already 18 consecutive days and that keeps the cities of La Paz and El Alto under strict logistical isolation. Minister of Public Works Mauric…
He tried to unblock the Paz - Oruro road by police and military officers ended yesterday in violent clashes between uniformed and demonstrators on the road. The objective of the police operation called “White Flags” was to enable the humanitarian corridor destined for the transfer of food, fuel, medicines and medical oxygen to La Paz and El Alto.
LA PEACE, May 23 (NOMADA NEWS).- The political and social crisis in Bolivia continues to deepen. Despite the massive police-military operation promoted by the government under the name of “White Banderas”, the protests do not stop and different sectors occupied the routes again a few hours after the clearings carried out on the corridor between La Paz and Oruro. By ANRed. The government of Rodrigo Paz deployed for more than seven hours a compreh…
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