Overview
- Widespread road blockades and multi‑sector strikes have choked supply routes and emptied markets, leaving hospitals low on oxygen and officials saying at least three people died after emergency access was blocked.
- The government has deployed police and military forces to clear blockades and has carried out dozens of arrests while prosecutors issued arrest warrants for union leaders accused of terrorism and incitement.
- U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau publicly described the unrest as an attempted coup and the United States joined a group of Latin American governments in voicing strong support for President Rodrigo Paz.
- Thousands of supporters of former president Evo Morales marched to La Paz and clashed with riot police using dynamite and projectiles, producing mass detentions and ongoing street violence in the capital.
- The crisis has immediate humanitarian and economic effects that could last weeks as Argentina flies in emergency food aid, the government reshuffles its cabinet to try to ease tensions, and the Organization of American States prepares to meet on the situation.