Fireworks and tear gas have occupied the streets of Bolivia for days, where demonstrators and police have been clashing for a month and a half. Just six months after coming to power, Bolivia's first right-wing president in twenty years has already faced his first major crisis. Rodrigo Paz, of a moderate ideological bent, took office in November after almost two decades of governments from the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), founded by former president Evo Morales, and has now encountered the largest protests in years in the Andean country.