Bolivia · Politics
Key Facts
—The move: the Bolivia cabinet reshuffle was announced by President Rodrigo Paz on May 20, alongside a new economic and social council, to try to defuse the crisis.
—The siege: the announcement, his first press appearance in nearly a week, came after three weeks of road blockades by indigenous, peasant, transport and mining groups.
—The toll: dozens of blockade points across the country have triggered shortages of food, fuel and medicine in La Paz and El Alto, deep in Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in four decades.
