Bolivian justice ordered the capture of former president Evo Morales. Hundreds of coca growers have armed themselves with sticks and makeshift shields to protect the country’s former president. A group of soldiers from the Bolivian army denounced this Friday, through a video released by Bolivian media, that they were being held captive and that their lives were literally in danger by supporters of former president Evo Morales.
Bolivia is immersed in absolute chaos. Images of what was happening today in the streets of La Paz, a situation of extreme violence and tension. Peace, that is, the capital of the country, not peace. Peace, because I tell you that there is no peace in Bolivia right now. It is under siege.
And when I say besieged, I mean it literally, that is, peace does not live up to its name. The demonstrations continue because the Bolivian city of La Paz remains surrounded by union and social blockades, despite the military and police operations deployed this Saturday to clear the main access points. At the time we made this video, there were 67 active roadblocks across the country, 50 of them in La Paz alone, roads were blocked, markets were empty, food prices had skyrocketed, and hospitals had no oxygen.
The Ministry of Health warned a few days ago that there were only 24- hour reservations left and a Canadian tourist, sorry, Belizean, Ana Ens, 56 years old, died simply because the ambulance could not get through. Fuel shortages and road blockades in Bolivia have caused a serious health emergency in La Paz and other regions of the country, where at least 12 hospitals have reported shortages of medical oxygen.
And you might ask, but who is blocking the roads? Well, many groups. On one side, the Bolivian Workers’ Central , then the Red Ponchos, the Chapari coca growers, the Rural Teachers and the Tupac Catari Peasant Federation . Yes, I know that with these names it looks more like a World Music festival than a protest .
All that’s missing is for them to add Manuchau. However, they are more like what a reggaeton artist imagines of himself, because they are armed and accused of cocaine trafficking, but of course, they don’t sing about that. Armed like a supposed guerrilla group from the 70s, but in the 21st century. Yes. Yes, trained as military personnel and always under suspicion of being financed by drug trafficking.
And what are they asking for? Well, one thing is for sure: the president of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, who has been in office for months, is resigning. Protests in Bolivia reached a new level of tension after thousands of demonstrators clashed with police on Monday, May 18, in the streets of La Paz, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz.
And behind this revolt is none other than the usual suspect. Evo Morales, whom we left in previous videos in the coca-growing region of Chapar, where he formed his own pseudo-state of Neo-Inca and proclaimed himself king. Yes, the same Evo Morales who has been a fugitive since October 2024, accused of aggravated trafficking for an alleged relationship with a minor under 15 years of age, come on, he is the leftist version of Jeffrestein.
The former head of state is accused of trafficking and rape of minors after it came to light that he had relations with several minors. Teenagers between the ages of 12 and 15 who were taken to political meetings of the More Party and who were chosen by Morá. The La Paz government directly points to him as the mastermind behind the protests and speaks explicitly of a macabre plan financed by drug trafficking.
Meanwhile, the army and police are deploying a massive operation to reopen the roads. These police officers are part of the humanitarian corridor operation, which in the early hours of Saturday mobilized more than 3,000 agents to unblock the roads connecting La Paz with the rest of the country. We’re talking about 3,500 personnel to be exact, and the situation is so serious that Comebol has just moved three Copa Libertadores and Sudamericana matches to Paraguay simply because football can’t even be played in Bolivia. The
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Welcome to Only FS. To understand what is happening in Bolivia today, we have to go back to January 22, 2006. On that day, a coca growers’ leader named Evo Morales was sworn in as president. He was the first indigenous president in the history of this country and came to power with the massive support of the Aymara and Quechua majorities, who for 200 years had been marginalized by the state.
And this is important because Bolivia, along with Guatemala, is the country with the largest proportion of indigenous population. We’re talking about around 40%, that is, about 4.3 million people. So it must be acknowledged, this claim was real. So Evo Morales became their leader, literally. In 2015, when he was no longer even president, he proclaimed himself Inca emperor.
But what did our live- action version of Emperor Kuzku propose? Well, a mixture of ethnic and socialist ideas, all aligned with classic Latin American left-wing populism. So he decided to found a plurinational state that included everyone. He said that with his measures he was going to end poverty in Bolivia, which at that time was one of the poorest countries in the region with between 33 and 38% of the population living in extreme poverty.
And you’ll say, “But how was I going to do it?” Well, with the classic populist move of the Latin American Left. Expropriate it, Mr. Mayor, expropriate it. On May 1, 2006, just three months after coming to power, Evo Morales nationalized the gas industry. Remember that Bolivia had and still has significant natural gas deposits and during the following decade became the main supplier of natural gas to both Brazil and Argentina.
Come on, it was a regional gas powerhouse . And here comes the first bombshell fact so you can understand the magnitude of the miracle. In 2014, gas exports accounted for 54% of Bolivia’s total exports. More than half of everything the country sold to the world was just one thing: natural gas, dinosaur farts.
And the Central Bank’s international reserves reached a historic record of $15.122 billion. With all this money, EVO increased public spending. Fuel subsidies, public sector wages, social programs. Hey, what’s up? That you are all very sad. Come on, let’s be joyful. Invite Torrente. The result: the town was happy to receive money. Indigenous people too.
And the left-wing Twitter accounts of that time never stopped praising the Bolivian miracle. And it must be acknowledged, during the first few years poverty really did decrease. The problem, the same old problem . Evo Morales spent all the money on his social programs to keep the population happy and nationalize the rest of the economic sectors.
The result, Netflix’s version of Jeffrey Epstein, who spent 14 years extracting gas indiscriminately without opening new deposits. But when he was ousted from power, things didn’t get better, because his party, the Movement Towards Socialism or More, continued to govern. And I’ll give you an example of the wonderful management, the wonderful management of the geologists of the most.
In 2017, the Minister of Hydrocarbons, Luis Alberto Sánchez, announced with great fanfare the discovery of the Boyux X2 well in Tarija. He literally called it A Sea of Gas. As a result, the sea turned out to be a puncture, an inflatable swimming pool. Come on. The well was an absolute failure and meanwhile the old mega-fields, Sábalo, San Alberto, Margarita, Itaú, were being depleted.
And what happens when you depend on a single sector and that sector runs out? Well, gas production fell from 59.6 million cubic meters per day in 2014 to 40 million in 2022. A drop of 33% in 8 years, and gas exports, which generated more than 6 billion dollars in 2014 , barely reached 1.9 billion in 2024. A drop of 69%.
Or as Ávalos would say, mm 69. Conclusion, Bolivia has been a net exporter of gas and now may become a gas importer as a consequence of the depletion of its reserves. This has been acknowledged by the government itself. President Arce has indeed said this is what is happening. In the last 10 years, gas or gas production has fallen by 37%.
The next problem is that public spending did not decrease; in fact, it increased. In conclusion, a chronic deficit from 2014 until now. And since there were no dollars coming in from gas, where did the money for subsidies come from? Well, from international reserves. I’ll give you a fact and ask for a minute of silence.
The international reserves of the Central Bank of Bolivia, which in 2014 were 15,122 million dollars, in December 2024 were at 1,976 million dollars. An 87% drop. Result. In the first half of 2025, Bolivia entered a recession for the first time since 1986. Inflation soared to 14%. Dollars began to run out for importing fuel.
Gas stations were filled with kilometer-long queues. Come on, everything we ‘ve already seen in previous videos. And as the ship sank, the party was falling apart from within. Evo Morales had been fighting with his successor Luis Arce for years and ended up outlawed and with an arrest warrant issued against him.
And what happened to Arce? Things were so bad that he didn’t even dare to run for re-election. The party that had governed for 20 years with absolute majorities had to go to the August 2025 elections with an improvised candidate, Eduardo del Castillo, who got a lot of votes. So pay attention, because this hurts, even EVO, with 3.17% of the vote.
Come on, no party has lost so much electoral weight in such a short time. Socialism ended in Bolivia, the party that had governed the country for the past 20 years. The most lost in the presidential elections and no openly left-wing candidate made it to the second round. And here we come to a historic runoff between two right-wing candidates, and of the two, the least expected one won, who is precisely the one who now has half of Bolivia in the streets asking him to go home.
There is no peace in peace for peace. And I know what you’re all wondering, especially those of you who aren’t from Bolivia. Who is this Paz guy? No, it’s not the character from Aida. Peace, listen to me, peace, I’m a cookie, I need to dip. Rodrigo Paz Pereira is the new president of the Andean country.
He was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1967 and yes, you heard right, the current president of Bolivia is Galician by birth, and has dual nationality. The reason is that he is the son of former president Jaime Pazzamora, who governed Bolivia between 1989 and 1993. In other words, politics is in his DNA. He is a Christian Democrat, that is, classic center-right, and before becoming president he was a former mayor and senator of Tarija.
This province is known as the Bolivian Andalusia because, in addition to its vineyards, it accounts for 45% of all the gas produced in the country. But let’s get back to the topic. In the first round in August 2025, no one could bring peace between the favorites in the polls, who were placing fourth or fifth. However, he surprised everyone with 32%, and in the second round on October 19th he won with 54.
96% against the conservative Jorge Tuto Quiroga. He took office on November 8, 2025. But what did he promise during his campaign? Well, that’s what all politicians who come after a failed left-wing populism promise: order, cuts, and chainsaws. He named his program “popular capitalism,” and this is what he said in the debate before the elections.
Enough with blind subsidies, smuggling, and corruption. We are going to eliminate the Tranca State. Certainty with the dollar, fair subsidies. Goodbye past, welcome future. Okay, nothing new under the sun, as any candidate on the campaign trail would say. The problem. The problem was actually twofold.
One, the inheritance he received because he inherited a country in technical bankruptcy with the worst crisis in 40 years. No fuel, no dollars, no oxygen, and no patience. But then there was another problem: his own government. And the peace government has been a complete disaster from day one. Let’s start with its vice president, his name is Edman Lara.
He is an ex-expert and, paying attention to the detail, he is the ex officio president of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly , that is, the second power of the State. And where did Lara build his political capital? On TikTok. Yes. The vice president of Bolivia is basically an influencer. But the problem isn’t just having a TikToker as vice president, the problem is what people on social media are saying.
But what has Rodrigo Paz done? Look, he ‘s still cynical and says, “I have bigger priorities.” Well, he says his priorities are solving people’s problems. Well, let me tell you, Rodrigo Paz, you’re lying. And that was said by the vice president of the government itself about its president 16 days after taking office.
So, in this respect we can give Pedro Sánchez a point. No matter how many scandals he stirs up, Yolanda DZ will always defend him, even if he’s not from her party. In December, Lara formally declared herself in constructive opposition. In January he announced bills to curb the president’s decrees and now, in May 2026, while the opposition is calling for the vice president’s peaceful resignation, he applauds the protests.
The situation is so serious that Paz had to sign a special decree allowing him to govern from outside the country without transferring power, because he is afraid that his own vice president will stage a coup as soon as he boards a plane. And there’s still more. The first Minister of Justice of the Peace, a man named Freddy Vidovic, lasted 12 days in office.
Because? Because he concealed the fact that he had a final conviction of 3 years in prison for helping a Peruvian businessman escape . The peaceful solution, therefore, so as not to attract attention, was to do the most discreet thing he could think of. Namely, he eliminated the entire Ministry. Through a decree, PAS initially removed Fredy Vidovic and appointed Jorge Franz García in his place, but then announced its decision to close the ministry.
The Ministry of Justice is dead and we are going to bury it deep so that state terrorism does not return to persecute Bolivian men and women. Yis, but what does it mean to eliminate the Ministry of Justice at once, which is not just any ministry? Well, he’s not going to ask me any questions. I’m going to have a heart attack.
Be in front of me. Come on. Fu. Well, the real reason is that I had promised it during the election campaign. Because? Because during the governments of the most, the Ministry of Justice had become the Holy Inquisition of Bolivian Socialism to persecute the opposition. But that does n’t mean the country has suddenly become Sodom and Gomorrah.
Well, I mean, not for that reason, because there are still laws and trials. What he has done is transfer functions, his functions, to other bodies. But anyway, this would be a whole other video, because in the middle of all this, Paz started using the chainsaw. In December 2025, he signed Supreme Decree 5503, which eliminated the fuel subsidy that had been in place for more than two decades.
Immediate result. Special gasoline rose by 86%, the 10 by 162%, and public transport skyrocketed, the basic food basket skyrocketed, and the street was clearly ablaze. Just 40 days after assuming the presidency of Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz faces his first citizen mobilization. His government decided to eliminate fuel subsidies in a scenario marked by high and persistent inflation, currency exchange rates, and recurring shortages of gasoline and diesel.
Furthermore, all of this is happening against a backdrop of low economic growth, fiscal deficit, and recession. And this is where we get to the key point of this video, because you have to ask yourselves the following question. Is providing the reaction this man is experiencing? It ‘s reasonable for people to protest a 162% increase in diesel prices.
That they are asking for an increase in the minimum wage is reasonable, but to go from there to this point with blockades that come from the rural world and also approach the city. So that has caused a lot of problems in Bolivia and the protests have been a super-voluntary outburst. That’s what happens, right? Because in the end, the roads are blocked here, the roads, which prevents the passage of trucks, the delivery of food, the delivery of medicines.
I told you yesterday that three people have already died because they did not have access to medicines as a result of the blockades. Look, from demanding a higher minimum wage, to occupying a city and demanding the president’s resignation , well, I don’t know, but to me personally, more than a protest, this seems like a game of Total War.
And in politics, when a protest escalates this quickly, it’s usually because someone is behind it, organizing the whole thing. And coincidentally, that someone has a legal problem with minor issues that are much more serious than filling up a diesel tank in Bolivia. And I repeat, these are minor matters, in quotes, you know what I mean . Wink, wink.
Evolution of the protests. Before we continue, if you’re new to this channel, let me remind you that we release new videos every week. The news programs give you the news. I’ll tell you the story. If you’re interested in geopolitics, international politics, economics, and all of it seasoned with a bit of sarcasm and dark humor, this is the place for you.
So, you know what to do: subscribe and hit the bell so you don’t miss any of our updates. And now, let’s continue with today’s story. The first thing you need to know is who the groups are that are besieging the country, because they are not just any groups, they are the pieces that for 20 years sustained the movement towards socialism, that is, the MAS Party in power.
First, the Bolivian Workers’ Central , the COB, the largest union in the entire country, historically an ally of the MAS, started things by asking for a 20% increase in the minimum wage. Today, their leader, Mario Argoyo, has an arrest warrant for inciting sedition. Second, the Departmental Federation of Peasant Workers of La Paz, Tupac Carari. I’ll give you a piece of information.
For 20 years these were one of the backbones of the most. They are the ones maintaining the indefinite blockades in La Paz, the capital. And third, the red ponchos, Aymara from the highlands, radical wing. And pay attention because this is serious. The government of peace, sorry, the government of peace, showed a video a few days ago in which members of the red ponchos appear showing weapons and shouting verbatim, now yes, civil war.
And it’s not a metaphor because they have weapons, it’s an army. He is the commander in front of his troops. Civil war. Civil war. Civil war. But not only that, there are also people who say that Havana and Caracas were behind the creation of this group, including the former Peruvian intelligence chief Max Anuamán. The Red Ponchos is an Aymara organization, and I’ll stop there.
They are not all Aymara; it is a radicalized group that was born in 2013 in Bolivia with the issue of gas, and from there they went and prepared themselves, but prepared by Venezuelan and Cuban agents. But wait a moment because there’s more. There are also the coca growers of Chapare, Evo Morales’ personal stronghold.
And here we enter the really interesting part, because all these groups converge in a single operation, the march for life to save Bolivia, which departed on May 12 from the town of Caracollyo in Oruro. They walked 188 km to reach La Paz on Monday, May 18, already in the third week of blockades.
Who organized this march? Well, sectors related to a character whom you will remember perfectly if you follow the channel . Stand up , comrades, let’s stay until we overthrow this enemy government of the people. Long live President Evo Morales! Viva. Because in the previous video we left Evo Morales fleeing from justice towards Chapare, specifically towards a place called Lauc.
I swear that’s what it’s called , with an ñ at the end, I don’t know how to pronounce it. And it’s been going on and on since October 2024. Why? Because he has a serious legal case against him. On May 11 of this year, a court in Tarija formally began the trial against Evo Morales for aggravated human trafficking.
The accusation: an alleged relationship with a 15-year-old minor while he was president. Relationship with whom he allegedly had a daughter. Evo obviously denies the charges. He speaks of political persecution. In fact, he did not appear at the trial. He was declared a rebel for the third time and new arrest warrants were issued. Bolivian justice ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales in a case against him for child trafficking.
And why don’t they arrest him now? Because Chapare is not a normal area, it is the heart of coca leaf production in Bolivia. According to the latest report from UNOT, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in 2024, coca crops in Chapare grew by 18% in just one year. And pay attention to the following fact that gives you an idea of who’s in charge there.
According to the Bolivian government itself, between 91 and 92% of the coca produced in Chapare is diverted to manufacture cocaine. Car Potter is going to the dark side. Black magic, no, you old fool. White magic. I’m telling you all this to make it clear that this isn’t a traditional growing area for drug dealers; it’s the Silicon Valley of the Drug Cartels.
And who’s protecting Evo out there? Well, thousands of coca growers armed to the teeth who mount permanent guards around their refuge. In a remote corner of central Bolivia, hundreds of coca growers have armed themselves with sticks and makeshift shields to protect the former president. When the police tried to enter and arrest him in October 2024, the coca growers blocked the roads for 24 days . There was no way.
And to give you an idea of just how far the Chapare is from state coverage, during these 2024 protests, the Tocaleros even stormed military barracks and stole entire arsenals, in addition to taking hostages. A group of soldiers from the Bolivian army denounced this Friday, through a video released by Bolivian media, that they were being held and that their lives were literally in danger by followers of former president Evo Morales.
In other words, the region is basically a parallel state within Bolivia. And this is where the story gets really interesting, because when Paz came to power he did something that for Evo is a political and possibly personal death sentence. He invited the DEA, that is, the United States, to return to Bolivia. As you know, the DEA is the United States anti-drug agency and had been expelled from the country by Evo Morales himself in 2008, meaning it had been out for 18 years .
In February of this year, the Bolivian deputy anti-drug minister confirmed that the DEA is already collaborating with Bolivia in intelligence exchange. And pay attention to this, it’s like something out of a movie. In January, DEA agents flew over Chapare, including the Laucñar area, where clandestine airstrips and cocaine laboratories were found.
That is, right above where Evo Morales is hiding, agents from the agency he himself expelled from the country 18 years ago are flying overhead. He needs to sleep really well. And here’s the key to everything you’re seeing on the news. Does Evo want to regain power through the ballot box? No, because it’s impossible.
His party, the largest, received 3% of the vote in August. Their movement officially does not exist. What Evo needs is not to win elections, what he needs is for the peace government to fall, because if the peace government falls, cooperation with the DEA ends, judicial pressure ends, negotiations open up, and the possibility of an amnesty, a pardon, or in the best scenario for him, a total forgetting of the case, opens up.
That’s why Evo has become the Bolivian horned rat, because he wants to keep himself and his witch-stone sellers safe. And wherever he goes, chaos ensues. During the riots, police used tear gas to disperse protesters while dynamite explosions were heard in various areas of the Bolivian capital. Tensions increased after the government denounced the presence of radical groups infiltrated in the protests and accused sectors close to Evo Morales of trying to destabilize the country.
You see, is there any proof that Evo is really behind this revolt? Well, you see, the march for life was called by sectors aligned with him. Because the coca growers of Chapare are their direct base. The red ponchos are also linked to the most. For 20 years, Tupac Qatari was part of the party structure, and Evo Morales himself, from his refuge, gives interviews to Argentine radio stations, setting the agenda, imposing conditions on the president, and describing Bolivia as a country, I quote verbatim, totally
paralyzed. The revolt has spread to other departments, that is, for Spaniards or people from outside Bolivia, provinces, Oruro, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Potosí, Chuquisaca, come, curiously Sucre, the official capital, has barely been affected until yesterday when the Unified Federation of Workers of Native Peoples of Chuquisaca, also another organization allied to the MAS, began to block the four accesses to Sucre.
And I know what you’re all wondering, what has the government said? Well, it’s not clear, because his response has been like Redinger’s cat . On one hand, they have said they want to talk, but on the other, they have already accused the horned rat and his allies of unleashing chaos and ordered the deployment of police to break up the blockades, but without lethal weapons.
However , we will have to wait and see how this situation is resolved. In any case, this isn’t just about Bolivia; it’s the fundamental question across Latin America right now . Is it possible to emerge from 20 years of left-wing populism without it devastating the entire country? Argentina is trying with Javier Miley, Ecuador with Novoa, and now Bolivia with Paz.
But the case of Bolivia is not special because here the problem is not only economic. Here is a former president with a pedophilia case hiding in a drug-ridden area who needs the system to break down so he does n’t end up in jail. From here I wish all Bolivians the best . I hope things don’t get out of hand and that the situation calms down as soon as possible.
And without further ado, now it’s your turn. Do you think Paz will be able to withstand this siege? How far is Evo Morales willing to go to avoid jail? Will Bolivia be able to overcome the crisis? You can leave your answer in the comments. And as always, don’t forget that here at Solo Fonseca we release new videos every week.
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