Bolivia Protests One Month In: 93 Blockade Points, Arrest Warrants Dropped, and a Fragile Opening for Dialogue

Anti-government demonstrators maintain a road blockade on one of the main highways leading into the city of La Paz, in El Alto, Bolivia on May 29, 2026. Demonstrators demanding the resignation of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz on May 29, rejected new government calls for dialogue and intensified the roadblocks that have besieged the country's political capital for a month, AFP observed. (Credit: Photo by Marvin RECINOS/AFP via Getty Images)

Bolivia's political crisis reached its one-month mark on Friday with no resolution in sight — but a pair of significant developments on May 29 opened, for the first time, a narrow window for negotiations. A court annulled arrest warrants against the country's top union leaders, and the Bolivian Workers' Central (COB) responded by calling an emergency assembly for this Saturday afternoon in El Alto to decide whether to enter formal dialogue with the government of President Rodrigo Paz.

Arrest Warrants Dropped, Dialogue Door Cracks Open