"There are blockades and there are barbed wires, " Bhutto said, speaking earlier to CNN by phone.
Abel Mamani, El Alto's most prominent leader, admits that the blockades have temporarily weakened.
Others did what they could to help lost drivers find their way around police blockades.
If the blockades had continued, sympathy for the pickets and blockers would have evaporated before long.
And even those who ventured out found it hard to negotiate their way round the blockades.
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Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.
The proposal has thrown Bolivia, already rent by blockades and bitter disputes over natural resources, into further turmoil.
Hence the 160 blockades on the roads that brought much of the country to a standstill this week.
The blockades are the start of a campaign to mark the Ancient Forest Summit in The Hague in April.
But in the meantime, I do believe that the blockades should be lifted.
Although such blockades are a crime in Argentina, the government declined to intervene.
Project site blockades, in particular, have emerged as a favoured low-cost, high-impact tactic.
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The Arctic convoy crews worked to keep supplies flowing through German blockades to Britain's ally, the Soviet Union, in Operation Dervish.
Fuel duty has proved the most controversial green tax in recent years, especially in the wake of the blockades in autumn 2000.
And he said that the Penan would use blockades, blow-pipes and machetes to defend their culture, adding "we believe we can win".
They triggered road and rail blockades, dozens of demonstrations and emergency talks between First Nations leaders and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Police were dealing with two separate road blockades by farmers and fuel protesters at the time of the incident involving Mr Prescott.
The blockades have led to shortages of food, fuel and medical supplies.
Blockades have stopped production at car plants and caused widespread food shortages.
Following local media coverage about complaints over constraints to the Paypal service, the company acknowledged that the blockades were imposed by local banks.
More than 3, 000 men died in the Arctic as they kept supplies flowing through German blockades to Britain's ally, the Soviet Union, in Operation Dervish.
Garcia had sought to avoid conflict by engaging Aidesep in dialogue for more than five weeks, seeking agreements to end the road and river blockades.
Both firms said the blockades did not significantly affect their business.
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Mr Maude said the government had learnt lessons from the fuel blockades of 2000 - which caused chaos and almost brought the country to a standstill.
In protest, the Pessimit community blocked traffic on Route 138 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May 9, and there were possibilities for future such blockades.
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"We did get some price increases from Muller Wiseman after the last lot of blockades but those haven't started coming into farmers' bank accounts yet, " he said.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Hezbollah militants Thursday began removing street blockades -- one day after the reversal of two Lebanese Cabinet decisions made during the recent factional violence.
Unlike their counterparts in such countries as France, Germany's unions do not usually mount blockades or seek to bring the country to its knees to make themselves heard.
Indeed the direct pipeline from the Essar refinery meant that during recent fuel blockades when motorists and public services were hit, the airport received an uninterrupted flow of fuel.
There followed a big meeting in London, lobbying of ministers and supermarkets and plenty of direct action in the form of marches and blockades of distribution depots and dairies.
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