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Posted on Thu, Feb. 08, 2007
Bolivian miners finalize their protest against the government
Associated Press
LA PAZ
The thousands of miners who had taken the center of La Paz with marches of protest and dynamite explosions in rejection to an increase of taxes to the private mining began to demobilize themselves yesterday after reaching an agreement with the government.
They solved to finalize the protest after signing a commitment with the government by whom they will receive $ 10 million.
The government suspended the application of an adjustment of taxes to the sector yielding to the pressures of the miners, after a meeting of his leaders with the authorities in which own president Evo Morales participated.
The deliberations were made during six hours in the office of vice-president Alvaro Garci\'a Linera.
The agreement indicates that other mechanisms will look for to improve the contribution of the partners of mining cooperatives to the state. The suspension of the projected adjustment also benefits to the foreign private companies and Bolivian, it clarified to the mining leader Andrés Villca.
Morales thanked for the miners to obtain an agreement and it promised $10 million to them to reactivate the industry, but it did not need if it will be a credit.
Shortly before the meeting, the mobilized ones carried out violent marches by the streets of the center of La Paz. The minister of Government, Alfredo Road, declared to the press that two police were struck by the miners and who other four were taken from hostages and soon released.
Road indicated that “a group of radicalized miners, among them some in inconvenient state (of ebriedad), tried to attack the police and to give a pretext for the rupture of the dialogue”.
The workers are used to using dynamite in their protests, but the detonations were more numerous yesterday than before, which motivated the alarm of the population and the call of the government not to insist on its use.
Shortly before the incidents, the Villca leader, said that the demonstrators would not make marches like Tuesday and that they would stay in \'\' watch \'\' in the environs of the centric seat San Francisco to the delay of the results of the conversations.
The Executive had demanded the miners who did not detonate more dynamite, when declaring his intention to smooth obstacles for the dialogue.
Coincidently, a judge released to the eight miners stopped between Monday and Tuesday in possession of great amount of dynamite.
Before the protests began, Morales had said that the private sector must pay "something more" every time in the 2006, of $1.070 million that received by exports, it only paid $45,5 million.
He indicated that the government hopes to obtain that the tributación, mainly with contributions of the greatest companies, arrives at $ 300 million.