Regional bloc backs Bolivia's Paz as protests mount, deaths reported

Four deaths reported from medical access denial due to blockades; 130 detained during protests; widespread food and medicine shortages affecting major cities.

In Bolivia, a weeks-long standoff between a newly elected government and a broad coalition of workers, teachers, and labor unions has crossed a threshold that no political dispute can easily survive: the deaths of four people, including a twelve-year-old boy, who could not reach medical care because roads were sealed. President Rodrigo Paz, six months into office after two decades of socialist rule, faces demands for his resignation over economic policies his critics call a return to the neoliberalism of another era. A thirteen-nation regional bloc has rallied behind him, framing the blockades

Regional bloc backs Bolivia's Paz as protests mount, deaths reported

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