Bolivia's fuel subsidy cut sparks widespread protests as tensions mount

Transport workers and low-income populations face immediate cost-of-living increases affecting daily commuting and food prices; potential economic disruption to supply chains.

In the early hours of a December morning, Bolivia crossed a threshold that had been deferred for two decades: the elimination of fuel subsidies that had long shielded ordinary life from the true cost of energy. President Rodrigo Paz signed the decree in the night, and by dawn the country had changed — gasoline doubled, diesel tripled, and buses fell silent across the major cities. The government's logic was fiscal survival; the streets answered with a different kind of reckoning, one measured not in billions saved but in bolivianos spent to reach work, to buy food, to move through a day. What

Bolivia's fuel subsidy cut sparks widespread protests as tensions mount

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