Physically disabled riot

A physically disabled woman on her wheelchair clashes with riot police in La Paz. Hundreds of physically disabled people arrived in La Paz on Thursday after completing a protest march of some 1600 km (994 miles) over a hundred days to demand that <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000131" title="Bolivia" href="/topic/intl/bolivia-PLGEO00000131.topic">Bolivia's</a> government offer support in the form of 3000 bolivianos ($434) payment to each physically disabled Bolivian, according to local media.

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( Reuters photo / February 23, 2012 )

A physically disabled woman on her wheelchair clashes with riot police in La Paz. Hundreds of physically disabled people arrived in La Paz on Thursday after completing a protest march of some 1600 km (994 miles) over a hundred days to demand that Bolivia's government offer support in the form of 3000 bolivianos ($434) payment to each physically disabled Bolivian, according to local media.

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