A line of customers form before the opening of a store to purchase cooking oil amid a shortage in La Paz, on June 4. 

A line of customers form before the opening of a store to purchase cooking oil amid a shortage in La Paz, on June 4. 

Photographer: Marcelo Perez Del Carpio/Bloomberg 

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In the chilly hours before dawn in La Paz, Elizabeth Sánchez was queuing outside a Bolivian state-run grocery store, hoping to get her hands on two bottles of vegetable oil.