Bolivia: Thousands of miners took to the streets of La PAS in protest of fuel lack

Thousands of miners ended Wednesday, the capital of Bolivia, protesting the shortages of fuel and dollars, amid the economic crisis affecting the Andean country. With the helmets in the heads, the miners marched and excluded avenues leading to the center, without incidents with police riot units, reporters from the French Agency reported. Since 2023, Bolivia has been having a serious financial crisis. The country of South America has almost exhausted its dollar stocks, a foreign exchange in need for fuel imports sold in the Bolivian market at a subsidized price. The protesters claimed initiatives on the part of the government of President Luis Arsis and highlighted the problems of the mines industry, a pillar of the Bolivian economy, which is particularly exporting silver, zinc, lithium and tin. Cooperatives face great difficulty due to the “lack of diesel”, fuel necessary for their activity, as well as the lack of “explosives”, he explained to […]
Source: News Beast

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