Bolivia's Paz Weighs Emergency Powers as Month-Long Blockades Persist

More than a dozen deaths reported from effects of route blockades disrupting supply chains and essential services.

In the highlands of Bolivia, President Rodrigo Paz finds himself at the narrow passage between persuasion and power, where a month of road blockades has claimed more than a dozen lives and left the capital straining for supplies. Standing near a freshly reopened route south of La Paz, he has refused to abandon the language of dialogue while no longer refusing the instruments of emergency. Parliament moves this weekend to give legal form to what may become necessity, as a government shedding ministers weighs whether the Constitution's provisions for order can accomplish what conversation has no

Bolivia's Paz Weighs Emergency Powers as Month-Long Blockades Persist

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