Anonymous9 days ago
The Trump administration has thrown its weight behind Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz as mass protests and road blockades threaten to topple his six-month-old government, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio framing the unrest as a narco-terrorist destabilization campaign. But the crisis is rooted in economic grievances — slashed fuel subsidies, rising inflation, and a contracting GDP — and the US response is inseparable from Bolivia's vast lithium reserves, its renewed DEA cooperation, and Washington's broader push to displace Chinese and Russian influence in the hemisphere.