Miners protest traps more than 100 foreign tourists in Bolivian highland city since last week
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A protest by Bolivian miners has trapped more than 100 mostly European tourists in the southern Bolivia mining city of Potosi for more than a week.
The protesters piled rocks on the runway of the Potosi airport Friday to prevent a plane from landing to pick up some of the foreign tourists.
The miners have also blocked roads into the area for 10 days.
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Also trapped are about 500 Bolivians, and local media say the blockade is beginning to cause food shortages in the city of 200,000 people.
The miners have a series of grievances with the government, including a demand to reactivate mines that officials ordered closed and to settle land disputes.
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