1.   And Bolivia has twice this year been paralyzed by protests.

2.   Last spring, violent protests paralyzed the industrial city of Nanchong, where thousands of unpaid workers took an executive hostage and surrounded city hall.

3.   The protest paralyzed traffic in the central Jakarta for most of the day.

4.   But as a wave of opposition strikes and protests have paralyzed Serbia, the main Yugoslav republic, discontent also was spreading among staff of state media.

5.   The protests paralyzed most downtown traffic in La Paz.

6.   Transportation was also paralyzed by protests in Bataan province west of Manila.