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Weekly Report - 08 September 2016 (WR-16-35)

BOLIVIA: Mining unrest turns deadly

The brutal death of Bolivia’s deputy interior minister, Rodolfo Illanes, and five miners during protests made local and international headlines last week. Signalling a new low in the dispute between the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government led by President Evo Morales and the national confederation of mining cooperatives (Fencomin) over the latter’s various demands [WR-16-32], it led the Morales government to announce a series of measures aimed at tightening control of the cooperatives sector.

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