Weekly Report - 18 July 2006

Last week President Evo Morales witnessed how the protest method he had favoured during his rise in politics - blocking the highways - was used, successfully, against his government. Aymara peasants, led by the mayors of their municipalities, halted traffic between Bolivia and Peru for four days in a campaign to halt the pollution of Lake Titicaca. After a failed attempt to out-do them politically, the government gave in.