Bolivia declares state of emergency and begins removing protester roadblocks (opens in new tab)

For more than six weeks, an array of anti-government unions, Indigenous groups and coca farmers have marched through cities and blocked main roads across the country with rubble, logs and debris. Major cities have seen acute shortages of fuel, food and medicine; the economy has lost billions of dollars; and the protests have threatened to topple Bolivia's first non-socialist government in two decades. Moving to end the crisis, President Rodrigo Paz on Saturday appeared in a late-night televis...