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The Bolivian President Evo Morales is meeting representatives of miners after a mass protest in La Paz over a proposed tax rise. Parts of Bolivia's administrative capital were paralysed after more than 20,000 miners marched into the city, throwing dynamite on the way. At least two policemen were injured in clashes with miners. The protest went ahead despite a government promise to freeze the tax on small independent co-operatives. The miners want their co-operatives to be exempt from the tax increases and they are calling for the mining minister, Guillermo Dalence, to be removed from his position. The BBC's Americas editor, Will Grant, says they are likely to get most of their demands.