Bolivia deploys army to halt protests after declaration of state of emergency

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Bolivia deploys army to halt protests after declaration of state of emergency Americas Issued on: Share Bolivia's government deployed soldiers and bulldozers to raze anti-government roadblocks. This comes after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency, which curbs the right to protest and allows the president to deploy the military. For more than six weeks, unions, Indigenous groups and coca farmers have protested against economic reforms and blocked roads.