Bolivian president to reshuffle cabinet, create economic social council

Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz faces a deepening crisis as widespread protests and blockades leave the political capital under siege less than six months after he took office.

Demonstrations that began with strikes in early May have grown into a nationwide movement involving ​labor unions, miners, transport workers and rural groups.

Two weeks of road blockades orchestrated by the Bolivian Workers’ Central (COB), peasant unions and miners have emptied markets in La Paz and depleted vital stocks of food, fuel and medicine.

Bolivia expelled Colombia's ambassador, Elizabeth García, on Wednesday after accusing Colombian President Gustavo Petro of interfering in its internal affairs with comments about the country's political crisis and the legal situation of former President Evo Morales.