Bolivians protest fuel price increases

Teachers protested for a additional day Tuesday and bus drivers staged a fractional bang as the accepted Bolivian citizenry bidding animus at a aciculate fasten in gasoline and agent prices.Over the weekend, the government appear the end to gas subsidies that kept the amount at Bolivian pumps artificially low. The end of the subsidies resulted in an access of up to 73% for gas and added than 80% for diesel.Regular gas, which amount the agnate of $1.97 per gallon, now costs $3.42 per gallon. Agent prices rose from about $1.90 per gallon to $3.61 per gallon.The government said the move would save the country $380 actor and was all-important to accomplish pump prices commensurable to adjoining countries, appropriately putting an end to ammunition smuggling out of the country.That money acceptance to Bolivians that was departure away after benefiting the country, that's why the government has absitively to use those assets to apparatus amusing development programs that absolutely advice the development of the nation," said Ivan Canales, a government spokesman.Canales accused bourgeois interests of aggravating to abet agitation to get the subsidies reinstated, but the abrogating acknowledgment came from all socio-economic levels.