Bolivia's government confirmed this week that it will send Congress a decree to keep the country's military-backed state of exception running for another 90 days, pushing a measure due to lapse this Friday, September 18, into mid-December instead.
The stakes go beyond routine paperwork. What lawmakers decide in the coming days will determine whether President Rodrigo Paz can hold together the fragile calm his government credits to the decree — or whether renewed unrest, now tangled with leaked audio implicating his own inner circle, forces a reckoning before the year is out.
