Stuck in Sucre

Well at this point, we're stuck in Sucre for a little while. The long haul truckers have blockaded Sucre and Potosi since we arrived, so you can't get a bus to another city. On Monday, it's supposed to turn into a nationwide blockade so any bus travel will be pretty much impossible. They are protesting a new law that changes the way they can deduct gas from their taxes. My understanding is that the deduction rate is going from 100% to 75% and it's changed to a statewide level. So, you can only deduct gas bought in the state where you file your taxes. Obviously, for the long haul truckers, this is a problem and so they're shutting the country down. Maybe with the nationwide blockade, the government will actually acknowledge that the blockade exists. They don't right now. Also, on Monday, the transit workers in La Paz are supposed to go on a 24hr protest, which could mean that getting from the airport there to downtown could be tricky.

So, if the whole country is clogged on the roads, our only option is to fly and we have to go through La Paz to pick up our stuff that we left at the hostel there. Also, it doesn't look like it will be realistic to go to the Salar del Uyuni because even if we fly there, the tours might not be able to get out of town. So, at this point, we have the first available flight to La Paz booked for Wednesday. If the blockade lifts before then, we'll probably just take a bus over to Tupiza or Uyuni and try to do the tour. Otherwise, we'll try and fly to Peru on Thursday or Friday.

In the meantime, we're in Sucre and in the next couple of days, we'll probably try to head to the bigger market on the outskirts of town and to the castle. It's all up in the air, so we'll see.