Bolivia's month-long crisis leaves 10 dead, 365 detained as government clears roadblocks

10 deaths, 365 arrests, 37 injured, and widespread food/medicine shortages affecting civilian population over one month of civil unrest.

For more than a month, Bolivia's roads became the battleground of a nation's accumulated grievances — contaminated fuel, unpaid wages, and political wounds that no single corridor could contain. On June 5th, President Rodrigo Paz stood in the agricultural zone of Carreras as soldiers reopened a highway sealed by protesters, restoring the flow of food and medicine to a population that had gone without both. Ten lives lost, hundreds arrested, and a Congress quietly drafting emergency powers tell the deeper story: a government choosing the logic of order while the conditions that broke that order

Bolivia's month-long crisis leaves 10 dead, 365 detained as government clears roadblocks

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