LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Followers of Bolivia’s influential ex-President Evo Morales on Monday joined a massive protest movement fueled by the nation’s worst economic crisis in a generation.The rallies and roadblocks that started over two weeks ago have become the biggest challenge so far to President Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia’s first conservative leader after nearly two decades of socialist rule.After a six-day march through the Andes, thousands of Morales’ supporters, some brandishing dynamite sticks and slingshots, converged on the capital city where they were met by riot police. Dynamite blasts rumbled in downtown La Paz. Security forces fired back with canisters of tear gas that wafted over demonstrators who called for the president’s resignation just six months into his tenure. “Homeland or death, we will win!” they chanted.Paz came to office last year as a wave of conservative leaders allied with the Trump administration swept Latin America. Inheriting the nation’s most severe economic crisis in 40 years, he has struggled to replenish Bolivia’s scarce fuel, restrain its massive budget deficit and resolve its shortage of U.S. dollars while also placating the powerful groups linked to Morales that could disrupt his presidency.