Bolivia: Protesters Isolate Potosi, Go on Hunger Strike

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | August 10th, 2010 | Trackback

Protesting miners trapped some 100 foreign tourists for a week in Potosi, where they blocked all roads in and out of the city and piled boulders on the airport’s runways to prevent evacuation. On Aug. 9 they cut off the rail line to Chile and some began a hunger strike to press their grievances against the national government. Travel in the area may be disrupted for the foreseeable future.

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