Buses block off roads in Bolivia as transport workers strike over fuel

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · May 05, 2026 · 72 words

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Buses block off roads in Bolivia as transport workers strike over fuel Buses block off roads in Bolivia as transport workers strike over fuel Public workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a national transportation…

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Union leaders are demanding the government guarantee clean fuel, end long lines at petrol stations, repair roads, and compensate drivers for repeated engine repairs.

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Claim 1: “Buses block off roads in Bolivia as transport workers strike over fuel”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that transport workers in Bolivia blocked roads with buses and vehicles during a strike related to fuel (specifically mentioning the 'gasolinazo' and fuel subsidies).

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web search NEUTRAL — Public workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a national transportation strike.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eyACAg_czUA

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web search NEUTRAL — Public workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a national transportation strike. Union leaders are demanding the government guarantee clean fuel, end long l…
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/5/buses-bloc…

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web search NEUTRAL — Transport workers in Bolivia have launched a nationwide strike to demand the complete repeal of Supreme Decree 5503, also known as the 'gasolinazo', a measure that abolishes fuel subsidies.
https://www.viory.video/en/videos/a3110_20122025/we-want-thi…

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Claim 2: “Public workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a national transportation strike.”

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Multiple sources explicitly state that public workers blocked streets in El Alto, Bolivia, using buses, cars, and trucks during a national transportation strike.

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web search NEUTRAL — Public workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a transportation strike.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/5/buses-bloc…

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web search NEUTRAL — NewsFeedPublic workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a national transportation strike. Union leaders are demanding the government guarantee clean fuel, en…
https://rocketnews.com/2026/05/buses-block-off-roads-in-boli…

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web search NEUTRAL — Buses block off roads in Bolivia as transport workers strike over fuel IndiaVision India News & Information Public workers blocked the streets of El Alto, Bolivia with buses, cars, and trucks during a…
https://www.indiavision.com/international/buses-block-off-ro…

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Claim 3: “Union leaders are demanding the government... repair roads”

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The demand for the government to repair roads is explicitly listed as one of the union leaders' requirements in multiple reports regarding the strike.

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web search NEUTRAL — The 2008 Bolivian political crisis saw protests against President Evo Morales and calls for greater autonomy for the country's eastern departments. Demonstrators escalated the protests by seizing natu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Bolivian_political_crisis

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web search NEUTRAL — The country’s main trade union, the Bolivian Workers’ Centre union, issued a strike call last Friday, coinciding with labour reform protests around the globe to mark International Workers’ Day.Transit…
https://saltmedia.ug/en/international/protests-in-bolivia-es…

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Claim 4: “Union leaders are demanding the government... end long lines at petrol stations”

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The demand to end long lines at petrol stations is cited in multiple sources reporting on the Bolivian transport strike, including Al Jazeera and a general report on protests in Bolivia.

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web search NEUTRAL — Union leaders are demanding the government guarantee clean fuel, end long lines at petrol stations, repair roads, and compensate drivers for repeated engine repairs. Published On 5 May 20265 May 2026.…
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/5/buses-bloc…

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web search NEUTRAL — No more long queues at petrol stationsOman Oil Marketing Company has introduced a new service of filling petrol in a vehicle from both sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_p-nwKtPC0

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web search NEUTRAL — There were long queues on the M1, heading towards the border with Northern Ireland, due to protesters closing the motorway at Dundalk, on Friday, with vehicles blocking both lanes at the Carlingford t…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy814wypp5go

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Claim 5: “Union leaders are demanding the government guarantee clean fuel”

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The demand for the government to guarantee clean fuel is explicitly mentioned in multiple search results describing the transport workers' strike in Bolivia.

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web search NEUTRAL — Bolivia’s right-wing President Rodrigo Paz Pereira is marking six months in office amid an escalating national strike, mass protests, and roadblocks demanding his resignation unless his government app…
https://www.wsws.io/en/articles/2026/05/08/olmd-m08.html

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web search NEUTRAL — Truckers in Bolivia carried out a two-day blockade of some of the country’s key roads to protest against the government of socialist President Luis Arce over ongoing shortages of diesel fuel and forei…
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2024/06/05/truckers-…

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Claim 6: “Union leaders are demanding the government... compensate drivers for repeated engine repairs.”

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While the demand for compensation for engine repairs appears in the Al Jazeera snippet and related NewsFeed snippets, these appear to be mirroring the same primary report. Other general search results for 'unions' are irrelevant to the specific Bolivian context.

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web search NEUTRAL — Knights of Labor 's seal: "An injury to one is a concern to all." Unions began forming in the mid-19th century in response to the social and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution. National labo…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_S…

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web search NEUTRAL — Arrowhead Credit Union is one of California’s fastest growing financial institutions offering our members better rates, lower fees and excellent service.
https://www.arrowheadcu.org/

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web search NEUTRAL — A labor union is a group of two or more employees who join together to advance common interests such as wages, benefits, schedules and other employment terms and conditions. Joining together – or “act…
https://beta.dol.gov/policy-regulations/unions-collective-ba…

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