In a market in La Paz, the stalls are unusually empty. After a week of blocking roads, staple food but also fuels are starting to fail in the capital of Bolivia. "There are no merchants, the sales positions had to close, there is nothing," says the meat market coordinator, Juan Arteaga Mendoza. "The government says it will get all the products by air, it would be good if it were done for the sake of the population." The city of La Paz is in a state of siege.
The rebellion of El Alto, at the gates of the capital, is at the origin of these shortages. France 24 reporters, Pascale Mariani and Simone Bruno, took the road through which gasoline, gas, and most of the food supplies are normally delivered to La Paz. This road is littered with barricades.
For the residents of El Alto, the stronghold of Evo Morales, blocking this strategic axis to suffocate the capital is the main way to put pressure on the new government, which they all demand here to resign. "No more merchandise will enter the city of La Paz, nothing, they will have no more gas, no more gas, nothing ... It's the order, it's our fight, our struggle!" proclaims a resident in front of the camera of France 24.