LA PAZ, Bolivia — The streets of Bolivia are erupting in CHAOS as the nation’s newly installed centrist government unveils its BRUTAL first act: a DECIMATING attack on the poor. President Rodrigo Paz has SHATTERED a two-decade-old fuel subsidy, DOUBLING gas prices overnight and plunging struggling families into an abyss of desperation. This isn’t policy—it’s ECONOMIC WARFARE, a cold-blooded heist from the working class to fill the coffers of business elites.

While the billionaire class applauds, the people are FIGHTING BACK. Thousands of miners, coca growers, and unionists aligned with ousted socialist icon Evo Morales have taken to the streets, shutting down highways and clashing with police in a last stand for survival. The government’s response? To SEAL OFF the seat of power, barricading itself against the very citizens it was sworn to serve. The message is clear: your suffering is the acceptable cost of their economic “cure.”

But a DARK and cynical truth is emerging from the smoke. Key unions, like the powerful bus drivers, have already been BOUGHT OFF with duty-free imports and promises, exposing a calculated strategy to divide and conquer the opposition. The strike’s strength is being deliberately UNDERMINED, not by popular will, but by backroom deals that sacrifice national unity for political control. The president claims he’s healing a “sick” nation, but his medicine is a lethal dose of austerity reserved only for the powerless.

This is more than a protest; it is the violent birth pangs of a new Bolivia, where democracy is auctioned to the highest bidder and survival is a privilege you must afford. The social contract has been TORN ASUNDER, revealing a chilling future where your place is dictated by the price at the pump. The question every Bolivian must now ask is not about fuel, but freedom: when the state declares war on its own people, what remains of the nation?