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Roads blocked in Bolivia as protesters demand president's resignation ...
NewsFeedBolivia faces growing unrest as widespread road blockades disrupt travel across major cities including La Paz and El Alto. Protesters are demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz amid fuel shortages, rising costs, and wage disputes.Published On 12 May 2026
Bolivians increase road blockades demanding Paz's resignation
Social sectors demanding the resignation of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz intensified road blockades on Monday and expanded protests against the government's economic reforms, in an escalation of the conflict that also includes teachers' strikes and mobilizations by the Bolivian Workers' Central (COB).Peasant leader Alejandro Yura told EFE that his sector is no longer seeking "dialogue" with the government, but rather "the resignation" of the president, something for which, he said, they will fight "to the bitter end" and that, if necessary, they will further increase the blockades.He also stated that rural leaders "do not have the authority to negotiate" to meet with members of the Peace Executive, which he accused of "betrayal" because it supposedly did not fulfill its commitments, although he did not specify which ones.One of the most conflictive areas is the high plateau of La Paz, where several peasant groups have been blocking the roads that connect that city, the seat of the Government and the Legislature, with the rest of the country and the roads to Peru and Chile since last Wednesday.In the Río Seco sector, near the outskirts of the city of El Alto, neighboring La Paz, EFE confirmed that the protesters placed stones and mounds of earth and there are also surveillance groups preventing the transit of vehicles.The state-run Bolivian Highway Administration (ABC) indicated that the blockades are concentrated mainly in La Paz and the eastern region of Santa Cruz, preventing the transit of vehicles in the so-called central axis of the country, which includes the central department of Cochabamba.The government has enabled an "air bridge" since the weekend to send chicken and beef from the east to La Paz.For its part, the Bolivian Workers' Central (COB) questioned the meeting convened by the Government on Saturday with local authorities and representatives of businesses and some organizations, in which reforms were announced to attract investment and overcome the economic crisis the nation is going through.The top leader of the COB, miner Mario Argollo, said that his sector's concern is no longer the 20% salary increase, but the reforms and new laws announced by the Executive which, according to the union leader, will serve to privatize state-owned companies and basic services.In Santa Cruz, teachers chained themselves to the doors of the departmental education office to demand that their salary demands be met, the delivery of new positions, and that th...
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Bolivia Hit With 64 Road Blockades — Rio Times
Bolivia road blockades reached 64 active points across eight of nine departments on May 6, with peasant indefinite action adding to the truck-driver pressure on Paz.
