Parliament, days after

04.21.2004

This is a picture of the side of the parliament building days after a disgruntled ex-miner blew himself up (on 30 March). The blast killed three, wounded ten, and blew out all the windows in the building, as well as many across the street (the Ministry of the Presidency).

Posted by Miguel at 04:52 PM

Comments

Yikes. Too many copycat suicide bombers!

Posted by: Stephanie at April 21, 2004 05:06 PM

What type of explosive did he use? Dynamite taken from his work site?

Posted by: tom at April 21, 2004 09:56 PM

Nope. Apparently, he bought the dynamite from one of the many venders in the Huyustus black market in La Paz. The use of dynamite (usually in small quantities) is quite common in protests here.

Posted by: Miguel at April 22, 2004 12:04 PM

They use dynamite here during New Years. Nice substitute for fire crackers, no?

-Puerto Rico

Posted by: luis at April 26, 2004 09:50 AM