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Some 26 people were injured marchers from entering the Plaza Murillo CONISUR (Bolivia)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jornadanet.com%2Fn.php%3Fa%3D73025-1http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16804399
Clashes broke out as protesters tried to approach the presidential palace
Hundreds of protesters have arrived in Bolivia's main city, La Paz, to demand the government resume the construction of a controversial road through an Amazon reserve.
President Evo Morales cancelled the project last year after a similar protest march by indigenous tribes.
They said the road would destroy their rainforest homeland.
But other communities say the highway would bring much-needed economic development to the Bolivian Amazon.
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Opposition groups say the march in favour of the road was instigated by supporters of President Morales.
Some of those marching are coca-growers from the Chapare region around Villa Tunari, where Mr Morales began his political career as a union leader.
They have been accused of backing the road project in the hope of occupying new lands in the Tipnis reserve to grow coca - the raw material for cocaine.