President Paz

Bolivia Congress passed President Paz’s reworked 2026 budget, aiming to reduce the fiscal deficit to nine percent of output. The plan includes waiving import duties and value-added tax for five years.

Bolivia has deployed troops and bulldozers to reopen roads under a 90-day emergency decree after a 50-day blockade caused critical shortages of food, fuel, and medicine in cities.

Bolivia's Congress approved President Paz’s 90-day state of emergency. Roads reopened with no active protest blockades, while troops have not entered the Chapare region aligned with Evo Morales. A relief flight crashed, and disruptions persist in Chapare.

Bolivia's President Paz declared a 90-day state of emergency and deployed the army to clear roads blocked by protests over scrapped fuel subsidies. The blockades, lasting nearly 50 days, isolated La Paz, resulting in at least 17 deaths, 365 arrests, and shortages in essential supplies including hospital resources.

Bolivia's first talks in 48 days between President Paz and the COB union ended without a deal after four hours. The meeting concluded with a recess, and detainees remain a key unresolved issue as the two sides formed a commission.

Bolivian miners clashed with police and demanded that President Paz resign. The clashes occurred as the miners expressed their discontent with the current government. The situation remains tense.

Protesters allied with Morales have marched on the Bolivian capital, sparking clashes amidst a huge economic crisis that fuels unrest against President Paz's government. The South American country is suffering from large-scale protests. The economic crisis is exacerbating tensions.