Bolivia - Residents blockade missionary TV station to prevent takeover by labor union

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Residents of El Alto, near La Paz, have organized a blockade of a television station affiliated to a Catholic missionary organization after the town's main labor union announced plans to take it over. The head of the missionary organization Cuerpo de Cristo Foundation, German priest Sebastian Obermaier, called for a residents' blockade of the Canal 57-CVC television station after the labor group COR announced plans to seize media outlets that it said conflicted with social organizations (...)

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