Rodrigo Paz Pereira, sworn in as president in November 2025, has swiftly aligned his government with the Trump administration in Washington. Situation confronting Bolivian people is desperateThe Bolivian working class, peasantry, small merchants and Amazonian peoples are being battered by the gravest crisis now gripping the country. After 53 days, however, the strike was lifted through a traitorous agreement between the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) and the government. He nonetheless maintains his commitment to the IMF, insisting on privatizations and tariff hikes, and counts on the trade union bureaucracies to suppress the working class. The class lines are unmistakable: President Paz governs for agribusiness and its imperialist backers, not for the millions being driven toward starvation.