Overview
- Road blockades by Indigenous groups and sector unions have cut land access to La Paz, with authorities reporting roughly 44–60 blockade points and growing shortages of food, medicine, fuel and medical oxygen.
- President Rodrigo Paz announced ministerial changes and proposed a Social Economic Council Wednesday to bring protest sectors into formal talks while he rejected negotiating with leaders demanding his resignation.
- The Bolivian Episcopal Conference and human rights bodies have urged humanitarian pauses to allow ambulances, food, fuel and oxygen to reach besieged cities.
- Bolivia asked the OAS for political monitoring, accused some demonstrators of aiming to destabilize institutions, and won public backing from the United States, which warned against efforts to topple elected leaders.
- Protesters cite recent economic reforms—including an end to longstanding fuel subsidies, rising prices and complaints about poor fuel quality—as causes of the unrest, a crisis that now threatens prolonged supply disruptions and weakened governability.