(5 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bogota, Colombia – 5 September 2024
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1.Various aerial shots of trucks participating in a strike in Bogota ++MUTE++
2.Trucks participating in the strike
3. Various of riot police
4.Truck with Colombian flag
5.Banner blocking street saying (Spanish) “No to the increase of the ACPM (fuel)”
6. Woman pushing her father in wheelchair through blocked street
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Briceño, Bogota Resident:
"The taxis don’t want to pass, the flow is at a standstill, so here they are only dropping off but they stop for 20 minutes."
Reporter: What do you think about all this?
"I hope they can solve the problem quickly."
8. Woman taking her father to the doctor’s office
9. Various of truck drivers
10. Various aerial shots of trucks blocking streets of Bogota ++MUTE++
11. Several shots of trucks blocking streets north of Bogota
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) German Niño, truck driver:
"I agree with the strike because it is an injustice that they are going to issue a decree raising the price of ACPM (fuel), and raising the cost of everything by increasing the price of the ACPM. It is going to increase the cost of everything in the family basket, all the all spare parts, everything is going to go up
Reporter : Do you think it is the right thing to do to block the streets?
For the people to listen to us, we can’t take it anymore, we can’t stand this injustice anymore."
13. Aerial shot of truck blockade ++MUTE++
14. Various of trucks blocking streets north of Bogota
STORYLINE:
The protest by cargo transporters over the rise in diesel prices that began over the weekend in Colombia has begun to affect food supplies in several cities, public transport users and children who cannot attend school in person.
On Thursday, police reported 89 permanent and 38 intermittent road blockades across the country, including access to capital cities such as Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cúcuta, Pasto and Villavicencio.
Claudia Briceño was walking along a blocked street in the north of Bogotá with her father in a wheelchair alongside dozens of trucks that did not allow other vehicles to pass. They were on their way to a hospital for a medical appointment they had been waiting five months for.
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"The taxis don’t want to pass, the flow is at a standstill … I hope they solve it quickly," Briceño told The Associated Press.
In Bogotá, Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán estimated that four million people have been unable to travel on Transmilenio, the city’s public transport system, because the lanes where it runs have been blocked. At the beginning of the day, 17 protest points were reported with around 640 cargo vehicles.
Some truckers were later dispersed with tear gas.
The blockages mean almost a million children in the capital have been unable to attend school, whilst it has also not been possible to move rubbish out of Bogota.
Freight haulers and the government have been at a negotiating table for several days to try to reach an agreement on the diesel price hike of 1,904 pesos ($0.50) per gallon that was ordered on Saturday by the government, the first increase in more than four years.
The transport ministry said on Thursday it would modify the hike and phase it in gradually by December, but did not say whether it would abandon or freeze two other increases it had announced for 2025.
AP Video shot by Marko Alvarez
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