{"id":604377,"date":"2026-05-19T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604377"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:40:00","slug":"chaos-erupts-in-bolivia-as-socialists-unleash-general-strikes-and-riots-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604377","title":{"rendered":"Chaos Erupts In Bolivia As Socialists Unleash General Strikes And Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Chaos Erupts In Bolivia As Socialists Unleash General Strikes And Riots <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Socialists in Bolivia, mobilized through the national labor union, highland farmer federations, and supporters of former left-wing President Evo Morales, have ignited social unrest over the U.S.-backed, market-oriented policy agenda of President Rodrigo Paz.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/HIpHxlCWUAA0bcD.jpg?itok=Nb7Z0Wf1\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/HIpHxlCWUAA0bcD.jpg?itok=Nb7Z0Wf1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5b2883bb-351c-4b58-9067-d3b44cb1e4bc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"315\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/HIpHxlCWUAA0bcD.jpg?itok=Nb7Z0Wf1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The turmoil comes as the Trump administration seeks to shift the Americas away from socialist regimes and closer to Washington&#8217;s pro-capitalist stance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\" xml:lang=\"es\">En Bolivia, obreros, campesinos, maestros de escuela, ind\u00edgenas y transportistas, llevan mas de 2 semanas paralizando el pa\u00eds contra las pol\u00edticas neoliberales del gobierno de Rodrigo Paz, y medios occidentales ni informan.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ruAizBAOYV\">pic.twitter.com\/ruAizBAOYV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 An\u00edbal Garz\u00f3n \ud83c\udf0e (@AnibalGarzon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnibalGarzon\/status\/2056116733006471534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Demonstrators clashed with police in La Paz, attempted to breach government buildings, and set up barricades amid weeks of blockades that have disrupted supplies and driven up grocery prices.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>BANK BRANCHES IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA SUSPEND OPERATIONS AMID UNREST<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Paz accused forces linked to Morales and drug traffickers of backing the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Bolivia&#8217;s government has ordered the arrest of all the main leaders of the indigenous movements and mineworkers unions.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re being charged for Terrorism for having organised the general strike against hunger. Strike continues regardless, now in day 7. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ISk3KPb68\">pic.twitter.com\/5ISk3KPb68<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ollie Vargas (@Ollie_Vargas_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ollie_Vargas_\/status\/2056555977756037356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paz\u2019s election last year abruptly ended two decades of nation-killing socialist rule in the landlocked South American country. Voters, exhausted by economic turmoil, surging inflation, a severe foreign-currency crisis, and declining natural gas output, opted for political change.<\/p>\n<p>The Socialist Labour Party in the U.K. stands in &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with the Bolivian people&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8We send our solidarity to the Bolivian people.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34Just six months after US-backed President Rodrigo Paz took office, protesters are demanding his resignation. Bolivia&#8217;s government has ordered the arrest of all the main leaders of the indigenous movements and mineworkers unions.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TnYzuVIOIv\">pic.twitter.com\/TnYzuVIOIv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Socialist Labour Party (@soclp_uk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soclp_uk\/status\/2056621525785010293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bolivia&#8217;s currency crisis has been a long time in the making under decades of state-heavy socialist rule.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/047395e5-222b-401e-8fd8-52bd40f29f28.png?itok=SCwm3bQf\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/047395e5-222b-401e-8fd8-52bd40f29f28.png?itok=SCwm3bQf\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"b97002d7-b4c5-41cb-9589-24a190bf95d4\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/047395e5-222b-401e-8fd8-52bd40f29f28.png?itok=SCwm3bQf\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 2025, Bolivia was facing a severe dollar shortage, fuel lines, and a forty-year-high inflation. Socialism reached its endgame last year with President Paz&#8217;s election victory. Socialists squandered the nation&#8217;s inheritance.<\/p>\n<p>Socialism has also reached its endgame in other countries, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><em><strong>Argentina, 2023<\/strong>: Voters rejected the ruling Peronist government and elected libertarian Javier Milei amid a severe inflation and currency crisis. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em><strong>Chile, 2025<\/strong>: Conservative Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast defeated the ruling left\u2019s candidate, Jeannette Jara, marking a sharp rightward shift after the Boric era.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><em>As well as the <strong>US removal of socialist Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/strong> from Venezuela.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bolivia\u2019s unrest by socialists attempting to shut down the economy should serve as a warning that socalist NGOs and unions in the US could attempt general strike in the US to derail the economy &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2025-08-19\/color-revolution-strategic-assessment-2025-2028\">we outlined that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Tue, 05\/19\/2026 &#8211; 16:40<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/HIpHxlCWUAA0bcD.jpg?itok=Nb7Z0Wf1\" title=\"Chaos Erupts In Bolivia As Socialists Unleash General Strikes And Riots\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos Erupts In Bolivia As Socialists Unleash General Strikes And Riots Socialists in Bolivia, mobilized through the national labor union, highland farmer federations, and supporters of former left-wing President Evo Morales, have ignited social unrest over the U.S.-backed, market-oriented policy agenda of President Rodrigo Paz. The turmoil comes as the Trump administration seeks to shift&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=604377\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaos Erupts In Bolivia As Socialists Unleash General Strikes And Riots<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}