Yesterday, students, faculty, and staff of the El Alto Public University marched from El Alto to La Paz to demand more funding. Today, the administrative management of the Bolivian road authority is demanding that rector of the school, Damaso Quispe, and four university leaders pay for damages that occurred during the march..
Forty-five people were injured in clashes with the police during the march, and 57 were arrested. Damages to the toll motorway that connects El Alto to La Paz were estimated to cost Bs.155,000 (US$22,000).
The toll system had just been upgraded to process vehicles automatically and was in a testing phase; now, because of damage and theft of computers, workers are once again collecting tolls, this time in booths with broken glass windows.
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