Bolivian President Evo Morales, on Friday was cornered by his former allies after two weeks of protests by labor unions, which are constantly in order to start a pay rise of more than 10% that the president just decreed in February for four key areas: military, police, teachers and health workers. "This is a difficult time of President Morales for not listening to the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB).
The man is cornered by the unions. You have to give up to survive politically," said the former union leader Filemon Escobar, political mentor indigenous president. Thousands of teachers and workers in the rural sector on Friday blocked the main road in Bolivia, which connects the neighboring cities of La Paz and El Alto with the rest of the country, and clashed with riot police, officials said, while local media showed closures pathways in other regions.
The main sticking point was about 45 kilometers from La Paz, La Apacheta Andean highlands village of nearly 4,000 meters above sea level, where protesters threw stones from the early morning bus operations, said Col. Roberto Torrez, Police, the official news agency ABI. Television channels showed hundreds of vehicles held on both sides of the Apacheta before police intervention, as well as other blocks in eastern and southern Bolivia.
The closure of the main road occurs on the ninth consecutive day of strikes, street demonstrations and unrest throughout the country, led by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB). Most Bolivian labor organization, before President Evo Morales ally, claims a 15% wage increase for all workers, both private and public, and asked to negotiate directly with the union also Morales, and not to his ministers, who include several former leaders of the labor organization.
"I started to agree and finalize the conflict, but with the president. He has aircraft and helicopter to come at any time. They're stalling," he told reporters the main leader of the COB, the miner Pedro Montes. "Before he was quick to address them. Now you do not want to do with their COB, where it came from," he added.
Morales, leader of seven unions of coca growers, is since Wednesday in the southern department of Tarija, inaugurating public works, but this Friday will not attend the events scheduled on the agenda to avoid protests against him. "I do not want to bother," he said in Tarija Communication Minister, Ivan Canelas.
"We regret that there are people who do not understand that President Morales came to Tarija to work," said Communications Minister Ivan Canelas. On Thursday thousands of demonstrators blocked much of La Paz, where they surrounded the official residence of Morales, and there were street demonstrations and closures of streets and roads in Santa Cruz (east) and Cochabamba (center), among other cities.
In the town of Yacuiba Tarija, near Argentina, the police dispersed with tear gas teachers who tried to approach Morales during one of the openings, media reported that border region. 
The man is cornered by the unions. You have to give up to survive politically," said the former union leader Filemon Escobar, political mentor indigenous president. Thousands of teachers and workers in the rural sector on Friday blocked the main road in Bolivia, which connects the neighboring cities of La Paz and El Alto with the rest of the country, and clashed with riot police, officials said, while local media showed closures pathways in other regions.
The main sticking point was about 45 kilometers from La Paz, La Apacheta Andean highlands village of nearly 4,000 meters above sea level, where protesters threw stones from the early morning bus operations, said Col. Roberto Torrez, Police, the official news agency ABI. Television channels showed hundreds of vehicles held on both sides of the Apacheta before police intervention, as well as other blocks in eastern and southern Bolivia.
The closure of the main road occurs on the ninth consecutive day of strikes, street demonstrations and unrest throughout the country, led by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB). Most Bolivian labor organization, before President Evo Morales ally, claims a 15% wage increase for all workers, both private and public, and asked to negotiate directly with the union also Morales, and not to his ministers, who include several former leaders of the labor organization.
"I started to agree and finalize the conflict, but with the president. He has aircraft and helicopter to come at any time. They're stalling," he told reporters the main leader of the COB, the miner Pedro Montes. "Before he was quick to address them. Now you do not want to do with their COB, where it came from," he added.
Morales, leader of seven unions of coca growers, is since Wednesday in the southern department of Tarija, inaugurating public works, but this Friday will not attend the events scheduled on the agenda to avoid protests against him. "I do not want to bother," he said in Tarija Communication Minister, Ivan Canelas.
"We regret that there are people who do not understand that President Morales came to Tarija to work," said Communications Minister Ivan Canelas. On Thursday thousands of demonstrators blocked much of La Paz, where they surrounded the official residence of Morales, and there were street demonstrations and closures of streets and roads in Santa Cruz (east) and Cochabamba (center), among other cities.
In the town of Yacuiba Tarija, near Argentina, the police dispersed with tear gas teachers who tried to approach Morales during one of the openings, media reported that border region.
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