LA PAZ: Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz on Wednesday announced plans to reshuffle his cabinet to make it more inclusive following weeks of anti-government protests.
“We need to reorganize a cabinet that must be able to listen,” Paz told reporters, adding that he would also set up a separate body to allow the Indigenous groups, farmers, miners and other workers who have been in the street “to be part of the decision-making process.”
Bolivians began demonstrating and erecting roadblocks in early May to demand salary increases, stable fuel supplies and measures to mitigate the worst economic crisis in 40 years.
The protests have since snowballed into a revolt, marked by calls for Paz’s resignation, just six months after he took office.
Foreign Minister Fernando Aramayo accused the demonstrators of trying to “disrupt the democratic order.”
