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Bolivia: Miners Strike to Demand Construction of Hospitals and Roads

HeadlineJul 22, 2015

In news from South America, Bolivian miners are continuing strikes and protests to demand that President Evo Morales fulfill his promise to build hospitals, roads and an international airport in the southern mining region of Potosí.

Milton Navarro, protest organizer: “President Evo Morales, don’t let the department of Potosí suffer. The department of Potosí has no food. We are hungry. But this is not the fault of the civic committees who have reunited here in La Paz in hope of an answer for our demands. The only person to blame here is President Evo Morales. Why is he afraid to have a dialogue? He does not have the capacity to have a dialogue?”

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