Blockaded into the highest city in the World!
June 1st 2005 On the 1st of June 2005 we caught a bus from Uyuni (Bolivia) to Potosi (still in Bolivia), the highest city in the world (4100m or 13500ft) and a UNESCO World Heritage City. By this time the campesinos (farmers and rural workers) had mobilised and had set up road blocks around most of the country. There had already been trouble in La Paz, the capital, and now it was spreading to the provinces. The
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