Bolivia, mining blockades continue in much of country for second day

americaeconomia.com reported….Arterial six of nine departments were occupied by the cooperative to demand compliance with a decree granted a lease for lode in exploitation of tin and zinc. A conflict between union and cooperative mining for possession of a lode mining remained Tuesday in Bolivia, and left more than half of the country impassable by blocking roads that ran a sector workers subsurface local media reported.

Arterial six of nine departments in Bolivia were occupied by the cooperative to demand compliance with a decree granted a lease for lode in exploitation of tin and zinc, given the opposition of trade unionists demanding full nationalization of these lands. The departments affected by this measure pressure are La Paz, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Oruro and Beni.Read Article