Police detain teachers after dispersing blockade on La Paz-El Alto motorway
Teachers were arrested after police used tear gas to dissolve a blockade on the motorway connecting La Paz and El Alto.
Teachers arrested following police intervention on La Paz-El Alto motorway
According to eju.tv, police officers intervened on Tuesday at a blockade set up by teachers on the motorway connecting La Paz with El Alto, dispersing the protesters with tear gas and subsequently proceeding to their arrest.
The teachers from the Pedro Domingo Murillo Higher Technology Institute, based in the Achachicala area, had blocked one of the carriageways of the road as a pressure measure against the central Government's decision to transfer the administration of technological institutes to departmental governorships.
A police contingent arrived at the location after midday and employed tear gas to clear the blockade point. The teachers were forced to abandon the area, but were intercepted by another group of officers who placed them in police vans and transported them detained.
The intervention occurred despite the country being under a state of exception. The teachers are carrying out a 48-hour strike in rejection of the government measure to decentralise technical higher education.
In parallel, the march called by the sector reached the doors of the Ministry of Education, where the demonstrators set up a rally outside another police contingent that was guarding the institutional building.
Source: Google News BO — La Paz