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Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz targeted by new mass protests

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 537 words
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Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz targeted by new mass protests Bolivian riot police fired tear gas at anti-government demonstrators in La Paz on Friday as unions and Indigenous groups renewed demands for President Rodrigo Paz to resign amid a deepening economic…

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What happened

Bolivian president Rodrigo Paz targeted by new mass protests Bolivian riot police fired tear gas at anti-government demonstrators in La Paz on Friday as unions and Indigenous groups renewed demands for President Rodrigo Paz to resign amid a deepening economic…

Why it matters

Bolivian riot police clashed with anti-government protesters in La Paz on Friday for the second time in a week as unions and Indigenous groups pressed their calls for President Rodrigo Paz to step down.

Common ground

Demands for the business-friendly conservative to resign have persisted despite his promise to respond to the grievances of labor unions and Indigenous communities.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260522-police-protesters-clash-in-new-mar…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “unions and Indigenous groups renewed demands for President Rodrigo Paz to resign”
CORROBORATED
The New York Times and other news sources explicitly state that labor unions and Indigenous groups are demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. Its geography primarily consists of an Andean region to the west and tropical lowlands…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Juan Evo Morales Ayma (Spanish: [xwan ˈeβo moˈɾales ˈajma]; born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the peoples who are native to the Americas or the Western Hemisphere. Their ancestors are among the pre-Columbian population of South or North America, inclu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Amer…
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Claim 2: “the country's worst economic crisis since the 1980s, marked by acute shortages of fuel and foreign currency and runaway inflation”
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Web search results confirm Bolivia is facing its worst economic crisis in decades, specifically mentioning shortages of U.S. dollars and high inflation compared to the 1980s crisis.
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web search NEUTRAL — At the height of the 1982–1985 Bolivian economic crisis, Bolivia experienced an annual inflation rate of more than 20,000 percent. ... ↑ "Findings on the Worst ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Bolivia
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago ... ... as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades. Since 2023, Bolivia has faced a severe shortage of U.S. dollars, trapping ...
https://www.facebook.com/cgtnamerica/posts/bolivia-is-facing…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 14, 2025 · Bolivia's economy is on the brink of collapse. The country is experiencing its highest inflation in 38 years: in June alone, prices rose by ...Missing: worst | Show results with:worst
https://fee.org/articles/crisis-in-bolivia/
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Claim 3: “Trade unions began demonstrating in early May for wage increases, improved fuel supplies and economic stability”
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Claim 4: “The Bolivian government said it would deploy a police and military operation beginning Saturday morning to allow the passage of goods”
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Recent web search results confirm that Bolivian police and armed forces planned to open 'humanitarian corridors' on Saturday to allow supplies to move.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 hour ago ... Bolivia police and armed forces will open "humanitarian corridors" on Saturday in the country's La Paz department in order for supplies to move ...
https://www.facebook.com/Reuters/posts/bolivia-police-and-ar…
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago ... Military police in Bolivia arrested demonstrators and used tear gas to try to disrupt road blockades after 11 days of protests.
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/posts/military-police-in-…
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 days ago ... Bolivian security forces clashed with anti-government demonstrators outside La Paz on May 16, deploying some 3,500 soldiers and police officers ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYafQeDj7Qy/
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Claim 5: “Morales... [is] wanted on charges of trafficking a minor”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 6: “Paz's government accuses Morales... of fomenting the current unrest”
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Claim 7: “hundreds of residents marched through the city center in a counterprotest against the blockades”
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While there are reports of mass protests and blockades in La Paz, the specific detail about 'hundreds of residents' marching in a 'counterprotest' is not explicitly corroborated by the provided evidence snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 4, 2026 ... Demonstrators at thousands of events rallied against the war in Iran, immigration enforcement and what they see as overreach by the Trump ...
https://www.facebook.com/newshour/posts/millions-turned-out-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 13, 2022 ... Photos: Thousands demand president's resignation in Bolivia's La Paz. Mass protests and road blockades choking the Bolivian capital. This ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/2/13/photos-protests-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 29, 2026 ... " Marchers stretched for blocks, led by a group of people holding a giant Mexican flag and bystanders cheering and clapping along the way.
https://www.facebook.com/ArabNews/posts/watch-tens-of-thousa…
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Claim 8: “Paz came to power six months ago”
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Wikipedia identifies Rodrigo Paz Pereira as the 68th president of Bolivia since 2025. Given the protests are occurring in May 2026, the timeline of him coming to power roughly six months prior (late 2025) is consistent with the reference.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In May 2026, ongoing mass protests began in La Paz, Bolivia. Miners comprised a large part of the protesters, but they were also accompanied by teachers, farmers, and other workers. The protests were …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bolivian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jaime Paz Zamora (born 15 April 1939) is a Bolivian former politician who served as the 60th president of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993. He also served as the 32nd vice president of Bolivia from October 1…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Paz_Zamora
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rodrigo Paz Pereira (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣo ˈpas peˈɾejɾa]; born 22 September 1967) is a Bolivian politician and diplomat who has served as the 68th president of Bolivia since 2025. The elde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Paz
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Claim 9: “Paz has attempted to take the heat out of the protests by firing his unpopular labor minister”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the firing of a labor minister by President Paz.
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Claim 10: “Demonstrators hurled sticks and stones at riot police, who responded with successive tear gas rounds”
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Web search results describe the clashes in La Paz, specifically mentioning radicals hurling rocks/firecrackers and police responding with tear gas.
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web search NEUTRAL — A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public act of objection, disapproval or dissent against political advantage. [1][2] Protests can be thought of as acts of c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · The World Health Organization warned Friday that violence is impeding efforts to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after protesters demanding the r…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/africa/protesters-set-drc-ebo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 29, 2026 · The Seattle Police Department initially estimated that at least 75,000 people attended the demonstration in Seattle; protesters marched from Cal Anderson Park, down Pine Street, and acr…
https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/protests/where-no-k…
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Claim 11: “Morales has been hiding out from police in his central coca-growing fiefdom of Chapare since late 2024”
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Claim 12: “Bolivian riot police fired tear gas at anti-government demonstrators in La Paz on Friday”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that riot police used tear gas against anti-government protesters in La Paz in May 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1969 La Paz Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Douglas DC-6 crash, also known as the Viloco tragedy, was an accident involving a Douglas DC-6B of the Bolivian airline Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano that collided with M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_La_Paz_Lloyd_Aéreo_Bolivi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019 Bolivian political crisis was a period of intense political upheaval and unrest in Bolivia that followed the disputed 2019 Bolivian general election, in which incumbent President Evo Morales …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_political_crisis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 27 February 2026, a Bolivian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules on a domestic flight from Viru Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, to El Alto International Airport, La Paz, suffered…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bolivian_Air_Force_Lockhe…
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Claim 13: “In El Alto... demonstrators briefly blocked access to the city's main international airport”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the blocking of the international airport in El Alto.
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Claim 14: “His election... ended two decades of socialist rule launched by Indigenous coca farmer Evo Morales in the mid-2000s”
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Claim 15: “Bolivian riot police clashed with anti-government protesters in La Paz on Friday for the second time in a week”
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BBC and DW report clashes between police and protesters in La Paz as part of 'weeks-long unrest', supporting the claim of repeated clashes within a short timeframe.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1946 La Paz riots were a series of increasingly violent strikes and protests which culminated in the lynching and hanging of then president of Bolivia, Gualberto Villarroel, and the complete colla…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_La_Paz_riots
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2003 La Paz riots, commonly referred to as Black February (Spanish: Febrero Negro), was a period of civil unrest in La Paz, Bolivia, that took place between 12 and 13 February 2003. The riots were…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_La_Paz_riots
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nicolás Paz Martínez (born 8 September 2004) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Como. Born in Spain, he plays for the Argentina national team.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Paz
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