An elderly lady waits to enter a state-owned supermarket to buy chicken amid food shortages and long queues i in La Paz, Bolivia, 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)