 Villca also told reporters that the “fight of the mining cooperative members goes beyond the same Mining Complementary Tax”, they also opposed provisions of the Mining Code, which do not specify areas that can be leased for mining concession.Morales’ interior minister Alfredo Rada said that the tax freeze “seems reasonable to us.We hope that this proposal will not continue to be met with intolerance and irrational actions like those of the ... miners this morning.”