"On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 10, individuals blocking traffic at the La Paz–El Alto highway toll plaza in that city threatened Grover Yapura—a journalist and the director of the news site Urgente.bo—with assault and the seizure of his mobile phone.
Yapura, a print journalist who also runs the weekly El Compadre and the print magazine Oxígeno, was recording a video of the blockade organized by protesters who, he claims, are not from the city of El Alto.
'I saw them set a motorcycle on fire and beat a person—likely the motorcyclist. They threatened me with stones and said they would take my cell phone,' Yapura recounted to the Monitoring Unit of the National Press Association (ANP), which represents Bolivia’s leading newspapers."
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This text was translated with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Teresa Mioli.
