Bolivia

President Evo Morales was forced to cancel a trip to Brazil due to this and several other protests.

Introduction
Worker self-management (WSM) has re-emerged as a major movement in Argentina, particularly this year with over 200 factories organized and controlled by their workers and a national co-coordinator of self-managed enterprises in the process of being organized.

A new series of social and national polarities in the Western Hemisphere has dominated political life over the past few years. At the beginning of the new millennium the national confrontation was between Cuba and the US/EU, and the social confrontations between the rural/indian and urban/unemployed movements and a continent-wide collection of neo-liberal regimes.

Employees from the country's main airline, Lloyd Aereo Boliviano (LAB), are demanding its nationalisation.

But President Evo Morales has ruled out nationalisation, saying the partially private company is seriously corrupt.

The government said it took control of airports in an effort to avoid accidents and ensure passenger safety.

The Bolivian state already holds a 48% stake in the LAB.

This week has seen an ongoing strike by pilots at private LAB. The Pilot Association paralyzed work Thursday demanding the reinstatement of 15 fired workers, alongside the cessation of lawsuits against three others, and payment of $8 million instalments to retirement funds that were deducted by LAB.