Bolivia's Paz warns protests threaten democratic transition amid economic crisis

Four deaths and over one hundred detainees reported amid ongoing mobilizations and security force interventions using tear gas.

In the high-altitude capital of La Paz, Bolivia's president Rodrigo Paz confronts a nation divided between the weight of its recent past and the uncertain promise of transformation. For four weeks, roads have been sealed, supplies have dwindled, and the question hanging over the Andes is not merely whether a government will survive, but whether democratic institutions themselves can take root in soil still contested by history. The crisis distills a tension as old as reform itself: the distance between a leader's vision and the daily hunger of those asked to wait for it.

Bolivia's Paz warns protests threaten democratic transition amid economic crisis

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