Embattled Bolivian leader announces cabinet reshuffle in bid to end crisis
The council will include farmers, unions and other sectors as Paz seeks dialogue after more than three weeks of roadblocks and clashes, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz announced plans to reshuffle his cabinet and create an economic and social council to bring together various social and regional sectors of the country.
- The announcement follows weeks of intense protests from miners, farmers, and unions who perceive the administration as having betrayed popular sectors by excluding Indigenous and working-class individuals from key government positions.
- Violence intensified Monday as miners clashed with police, while supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales mobilized a 190-kilometre march toward La Paz, where protesters have maintained 20 simultaneous pickets since early May.
- Presidency Minister Jose Luis Lupo stated the government will use "two instruments": dialogue for legitimate demands and the full force of the law against those attacking democracy, including establishing a "humanitarian corridor" for supplies.
- Officials accused Morales of orchestrating a "macabre plan" to destabilize the country, though no evidence was presented; meanwhile, the former leader criticized the government for protecting elites while ordinary citizens face rising debt and hunger.
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La Paz, May 21 (EFE).- The president of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, took an oath this Thursday to a new minister of labor, in a day in which the Bolivian Central Obrera (COB) is again mobilized in La Paz, which together with unions of peasants of the highlands block roads to demand the resignation of the president. Lawyer Williams Bascopé swore as a new minister in the government house in La Paz, replacing Edgar Morales, who hours earlier confirmed to…
The president of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, announced a restructuring of his cabinet and the creation of the Economic and Social Council (ESC), in response to the social protests that demand his resignation only six months after having assumed the government. “We have to rearrange a cabinet that has to have a listening capacity,” said the president during a press conference in the Government Palace, although he did not specify when the adjustments wi…
The changes in the cabinet of ministers announced by the Bolivian president, Rodrigo Paz, to try to appease the demonstrations against him took shape 24 hours later with a first movement of chips: the departure of the holder of the labor portfolio, Edgar Morales. The minister put his position at the disposal on Thursday “to pacify the country”, having led several polemics with the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), the largest trade union confedera…
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