Tanker drivers are blocking the central avenue 16 de Julio, in La Paz, to demand Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) to cancel the contracting process that they qualify as "discriminatory" because it affects 1,000 direct jobs.
The road closures are being observed from Montes Avenue, in the vicinity of the Bolivian National Brewery (CBN), to the Plaza del Estudiante, at the end of El Prado, where fuel trucks were parked on the roads where public and private transport circulates, reported Página Siete.
"We are complying with this measure because we feel discriminated against by YPFB. They are leaving 1,000 families without work directly and more than 5,000 indirect jobs because of this discrimination we are suffering," said one of the protesters.
"We are really asking for the cancellation of this hiring, since we are leaving around 1,000 families without work, including drivers, mechanics and others," another driver told Unitel.
"There are more than 600 tanker truck drivers affected with this hiring process. We are small companies, drivers of families that have been affected and without jobs. The intention is not to harm public transport, but to dialogue with oilfields, from whom we hope that they will call us to dialogue", said another of those affected.
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