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Transport Strike in Bolivia: English Summary

The City of La Paz, Bolivia, was paralyzed yesterday by a transport worker's strike and "moving blockade." There were also marches, blockades and demonstrations in El Alto, Cochabamba, and other parts of the country...

Transport workers want the price of gasoline frozen... Members of the landless peasant's (Sin Tierra) movement marched for the liberation of their leader Gabriel Pinto (see Pablo Francischelli's report)... others still chanted to put disgraced former president Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada on trial... and everyone called for the nationalization of the nation's gas.

One police officer on a motorcycle was grabbed and set on fire by a crowd of angry workers. According to Spanish-language wire reports (See Google News Español for various updates), the government has brought out the military to patrol the streets.

There is so far not a single report in the English-language media. Narco News will fill the vacuum, again.

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