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Mike Elk || On Tuesday, the main Bolivian trade union federation Bolivian Workers’ Centre (COB) reached an agreement with farmers and Indigenous groups to continue their general strike. The move comes as the newly elected right-wing government of Bolivia eliminated a fuel subsidy that kept gas prices at 2006 levels that had been put into place by the socialist government of Evo Morales.
Workers say that they have struggled to get to work and many complain that they have damaged their car engines by using inferior diluted gas to make ends meet. They have demanded that the government reinstate the subsidy and compensate them for damage caused to their cars. Workers are also demanding an increase in the Bolivian minimum wage and reinstatement of the socialist policies of the Morales administration.
According to the Bolivian Highway Administration, road blockades have been set up at more than 70 places around the country. Now, unions have pledged an indefinite General Strike.
“Starting today, a general, indefinite and active strike is declared, until the government understands the people’s demands,” COB’s Executive Secretary Mario Argollo told a crowd on Tuesday.
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