An employee at a state-owned supermarket gives instructions to the people crowding at the entrance following the government announcement that chicken would be sold there, in La Paz on June 16, 2026. For weeks, protesters demanding that US-backed conservative President Rodrigo Paz's fledgling government address a deep economic crisis, while others called for his resignation, have marched and set up roadblocks, bringing Bolivia to a near standstill, driving up food and fuel prices and causing shortages of basic goods. (Photo by MARVIN RECINOS / AFP via Getty Images)