I'm John Batchel. This is the neural report, Professor Avenales, U.S. Army War College. There's trouble in La Paz,

Bolivia, and the professor is here to interpret this headline. Bolivian miners clash with police

in La Paz, demand president's resignation. Explosions were heard during violent clashes,

writes Reuters, as mining groups took to the streets

calling for the resignation of centrist's president Rodrigo Paz. Professor, we have not spoken

of Bolivia since, I believe, Paa's election. The miners are part of the story that we've come across before. The indigenous

people unfair practices, union strikes. Is Bolivia different? Is something up in Bolivia?

Is this the product of some provocation? Goody? Thank you. Thank you, John. Well, first of all, thanks also for having the opportunity to talk about Bolivia because

they're strategically at the heart of South America.

The United States had a real opportunity with Rodrigo Paz, who, you know, what he talks

about is capitalism for all.

And so a kind of middle course.

So with a certain level of legitimacy, the son of one of

Bolivia's previous president's Jaime Paz Zamora. But there was a real opportunity with Pazza's

election to be able to turn the country around, at least partially, from one that had been one of

the cornerstones of leftist populism in Latin America with Ava Morales and later Luis Arce,

you know, a fountain of influence for China, for Iran, for to certain extent, for Russia,

one of the key centers of cocoa growing in the region. But the problem was that Paa's really

inherited a very delicate situation.

And things right now receiving insufficient attention by Washington are going from bad to worse.

The problems were not of his making.

He inherited them.

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