Over three weeks ago the first roads were being blocked in Bolivia, as protestors demanded better wages and an end to the ubiquitous scarcity of petrol. As time passed the blockades have become bigger and more widespread and at this point the protests are seriously affecting the country and its people.
Luckily for us, most of the protests happen around La Paz and so we are impacted less by it here in the lowlands. Nevertheless, as much transport has ground to a halt because of the blockades, here too food and gasoline are becoming scarcer and as a result prices are rising rapidly. On the picture you see how one of the roads that we regularly travel on has been barricaded with cut down trees, making it impossible to make the journey by car – only motorbikes now run a service of transporting people in between larger bloqueos.
