DECRYPTION – Triggered by austerity measures intended to restore a struggling economy, the protest transformed into a national movement against President Rodrigo Paz.
In La Paz, queues at gas stations are so long that motorists wait for days to fill up. Some sleep in their cars or pitch their tents near the pumps, so as not to lose their place. In supermarkets, the shelves are no longer full. In town, there is a shortage of medicine. For five weeks, Bolivia has been paralyzed by a social protest movement on a scale unprecedented in forty years.
Around a hundred roadblocks block several axes of the country, disrupting the delivery of fuel and other essential products, especially in western Bolivia, in the regions of La Paz, Potosi and Oruro. What began as a series of sectoral demands has transformed into a national movement against center-right president Rodrigo Paz, elected last November, after two decades of political domination by the left embodied by Evo Morales. Faced with the scale of the crisis…
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