Municipal Government Tiwanaku has taken the decision to take responsibility for investigations and Putuni Akapana archaeological site of Tiwanaku monumental, since the Venezuelan endowment fund is under administration Municipal Government of Tiwanaku. In this sense, the team of archaeologists hired temporarily under the designation of the National Archaeological Unit was leaving the service and launched an open call through CICOES (organ procurement and distribution of state tenders), the product of which was contracted a new group of archaeologists and rehired a majority of the researchers, who until a month ago, were working under the umbrella of the National Archaeological Unit (UNAR). The fact was interpreted - by those responsible for this distribution - as a forced retreat and an infringement of their prerogatives with respect to control and direct intervention for several years been making in various sectors of the site, something that was openly questioned by the archaeological community to La Paz for violating constitutional law (Constitution of the State), Administrative Decentralization Law, the Law of Popular Participation and the Municipalities Act the Regulation of Archaeological Excavations in Bolivia. After a conciliation meeting between the city of Tiwanaku and the Ministry of Culture decided to start a technical and financial audit in respect of statements made by the UNAR in Tiwanaku and reassess the candidates recruited by the Municipal Government Tiwanaku, in the context of extra-legal committee that would have formed with the participation of the Board of traditional farming neighbors and authorities in the region, which suspected Adolesce of legal anomalies, since there is a clear procedure dictated by the subsystem Procurement of Goods and Services Act 1178 for such cases, that in no case include duties or responsibilities to individuals or corporations outside the institution.
The truth is that Tiwanaku - for some time - have been taking place a series of arbitrary actions and harmful to the national heritage, passing through the site taken by the City of Tiwanaku (several years), the political intervention of the rural communities and the abusive and irresponsible management of the National Archaeological Unit and the Vice Ministry of Cultures.
a site being declared a National Monument and Cultural Heritage of Humanity, custody and administration should be handled by the Prefecture of La Paz, under the supervision and guidance of the Ministry of Culture and the UNAR, who in no way would be eligible for direct research assistance on site, but from strictly specialized institutions created for that purpose, such as the Universidad Mayor de San Andres and the different museums Archaeological sites that have authority for such actions.
The Ministry of Culture and the UNAR were created to lead and manage the national political culture and archaeological heritage, respectively, not to get in a feud that attracts a lot of money and whose management - widely desired - led in the past immediate, discretionary and inefficient management of funds raised from international cooperation for research and tourism development.
Tieanaku If GM wants to take charge of the archaeological investigation at the site, you must adhere to the law, discuss this with the Prefecture of La Paz (which has powers laws about this), to assess their technical, human, material and financial and establish a clear process of skills transfer, in which the UNAR and the Ministry of Culture can not be released from his responsibilities on the past administration of archaeological assets site.
Some versions of the problem were published in the newspapers La Razón and La Prensa, which are inaccurate:
http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090623_006767/ nota_253_833176.htm
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wrong also appear in The Times of Cochabamba
Change The newspaper published this story that is much closer to what happened
Carlos Lemuz http://arqueobolivia.blogspot.com 
