Police clash with protesters in La Paz as Bolivia's capital descends into chaos

Multiple clashes with tear gas dispersal; infrastructure damage and looting reported; widespread displacement of workers and public officials from city center.

In La Paz, the ancient tension between those who govern and those who are governed has once again spilled into the streets, as indigenous communities, miners, and workers converge on the seat of Bolivian power demanding not reform but removal. President Rodrigo Paz, six months into his tenure, faces a nation fractured by three weeks of blockades, a collapsing gas economy, and a political gesture—cabinet reshuffling, a new social council—that the streets have refused to accept. What unfolds in Bolivia is not merely a crisis of one administration, but the accumulated weight of a decade of econom

Police clash with protesters in La Paz as Bolivia's capital descends into chaos

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