Today Santa Cruz Christian Learning Center is the only school open and operating. Over the past week there has been some conflicts at the airport and the governor asked people to demonstrate at the airport today so schools were closed. American Airlines flys into La Paz and then Santa Cruz daily. To the best of my understanding they pay La Paz the landing fees and such and then La Paz is supposed to share the money with Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz decided they wanted to be paid in cash every time a flight lands. American refused because then they would be paying double so all flights stopped. This was very bad news for our friends Mike and Aileen because they were scheduled to fly out Tuesday. Instead they had to fly to Lima, Peru paying extra for that ticket to catch an American flight out of Lima to the States.
La Paz wants for American to keep flying and so they sent their military to occupy the airport here in Santa Cruz. There were shots fired and some Santa Cruz police were injured but now they are occupying the airport and flights are supposed to be leaving from here again. Today though all the people who are opposed are marching to the airport in protest. We are praying that it does not get violent. I am also hoping that nothing like this is happening when we try to fly home.
