La Paz declares a 90-day health emergency on day 34 as the blockade toll reaches five and two more ministers resign.

La Paz has spent a month under blockade. The main roads into Bolivia's administrative capital have been cut for four weeks, and shortages of food and fuel worsen by the day.…

Bolivia's political crisis threatens to spill over into confrontations between urban and rural populations, after nearly a month of road blockades that have disrupted supplies of…

Emergency declared: The La Paz regional government declared a 90-day health and humanitarian emergency on June 2 across the department.

La Paz declares a 90-day health emergency on day 34 as the blockade toll reaches five and two more ministers resign.

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz sent a bill to Parliament on Wednesday to regulate states of emergency, while two ministers resigned amid a crisis.

Bolivia’s president asked Congress for the legal power to send in the army as the blockade crisis turned deadlier and troops cleared a key road.