Bolivia

Date: March 15th, 2005 |

Weeks of road blockades have virtually cut the country in half and raised concerns that food will soon be scarce in many cities because produce cannot get from the eastern agricultural areas to the highlands. The protests are centered on the government�s proposed energy policy that would allow more foreign investment and thus, the poor [read more]

Bolivia

Date: July 6th, 2004 |

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Bolivia will hold a national referendum on natural gas policy July 18, and demonstrations in the days leading up to the vote and after are likely. Last year, anger over government plans to export natural gas led to large-scale protests and road blockades in many parts of the country and prompted the downfall of the [read more]

Bolivia

Date: February 11th, 2004 |

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Three months after unrest drove the president from office, Bolivia is showing signs of further trouble. An alleged plot to storm the country’s congress while legislators were inside was broken up in late January, and coca farmers in the Chapare region are taking up arms to protect their plantations. Unconfirmed reports say that groups in [read more]

Bolivia

Date: October 14th, 2003 |

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Protests over government plans to sell natural gas to the U.S. and Mexico boiled over recently with many deaths in conflicts with riot police, and martial law declared in El Alto, a suburb of La Paz. The international airport, also in El Alto, has been closed intermittently. In all, some 40 people have been killed [read more]

Bolivia

Date: February 19th, 2003 |

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The security situation in Bolivia has deteriorated significantly, with the president being spirited away from his palace Feb. 12 because of clashes between the armed forces and striking police and civilian protesters, and rioting in the historic heart of La Paz. Twenty-nine people were killed and several buildings were burned down. Tensions remain high, and [read more]

Bolivia

Date: January 25th, 2005 |

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Two weeks of strikes and roadblocks have greeted the decision by the government to cut subsidies on gasoline, thereby increasing the cost to consumers. Protests in La Paz early in January forced officials to drop the price increase from 23 percent to 10 percent, but that didn�t satisfy the residents of Santa Cruz, where 5,000 [read more]

Bolivia

Date: April 27th, 2004 |

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Just six months after driving the president from power and into exile, Bolivians staged further massive protests in La Paz demanding the resignation of the current president who took office after the crisis in October. Bus, taxi and truck drivers and street vendors held strikes throughout the country to protest a natural gas export deal [read more]

Bolivia

Date: December 3rd, 2003 |

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The chaos of mid-October that forced the president�’s resignation has passed, mass demonstrations in the cities have stopped and roadblocks in the Altiplano and Yungas Valley have been dismantled, but the political and social situation remains uncertain. Roadblocks could be constructed at any time and travel between Oruro and Lake Titicaca, and to the Yungas [read more]

Bolivia

Date: September 24th, 2003 |

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Hundreds of tourists, including 11 Americans, were held at a rural roadblock for five days by peasants protesting a government plan to export natural gas to the U.S. They were all freed Sept. 21 when soldiers and police clashed with the protesters. At least four people were killed and more than 20 were wounded. The [read more]

Unions representing everyone from teachers

Date: January 14th, 2003 |

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Unions representing everyone from teachers to transportation workers to peasant workers to coca producers are protesting government inaction on several fronts. Travel in Bolivia could be disrupted in the coming weeks, especially to the Chapare region and Cochabamba. Coca growers may try to isolate Cochabamba by blocking the main roads from La Paz and Santa [read more]