
Bolivia reopens the door to the DEA after almost 20 years
The return of the US anti-drug agency, as decided by President Rodrigo Paz, raises tensions with coca growers loyal to Evo Morales

The return of the US anti-drug agency, as decided by President Rodrigo Paz, raises tensions with coca growers loyal to Evo Morales
In an interview with EL PAÍS, the president-elect of the Andean country says that he considers himself a centrist politician

The son of the country’s former head of state, Bolivia’s election winner gained support among voters who abandoned Evo Morales’s MAS party

The center-right candidate wins the second round with 54.5% of the votes over the conservative Jorge Tuto Quiroga

The Christian Democratic Party candidate pulled off a surprise victory, winning the most votes in the first round ahead of the former president. The left is out of the power struggle for the first time in 20 years

From Claudia Sheinbaum to Pedro Sánchez, Gabriel Boric, and Gustavo Petro, the main progressive leaders praise the legacy of the former Uruguayan president

Recent accusations of sexual abuse levied against the former president of Bolivia point to a pact of silence in service of the country’s political elite and a troubling history with the legal status of statutory rape

The Luis Arce government issues an alert to prevent the former president from leaving a country sinking deeper into an economic crisis

The former president says it is part of a persecution campaign by Luis Arce as both men fight for party control ahead of elections next year. Morales supporters in the coca-growing region warn there will be turmoil if he is apprehended

In his interview with EL PAÍS, Morales, who governed from 2006 until 2019, affirms that the attempted coup that took place on June 26 was orchestrated by incumbent President Luis Arce. He also warns about the possibility of mass demonstrations in case he is impeded from presenting himself as a candidate in 2025

The Andean-Amazonian country has suffered the most coups d’état in the world since 1950. Wednesday’s short-lived attempt is the latest episode in its turbulent history

The country has endured 11 days of protests since the former president was banned from running again, even as the crisis over elections to choose new judges deepens

Washington has admitted that the diplomat’s detention has exposed ‘one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations by a foreign agent.’ Rocha also served as an advisor to the U.S. Southern Command and the National Security Council

Manuel Rocha is known for waging a fear campaign against the former Bolivian president that ended up swaying voters to the then-union leader

Most of the country’s wildfires start when farmers burn their fields to get ready for planting

The ex-leader of Bolivia, who is already serving another sentence for the overthrow of Evo Morales, will be tried as an ordinary citizen

The former head of government shows his strength in a party congress with his faithful in the midst of his fight with Arce for the leadership of the left

The country is enduring a process similar to that experienced by Colombia in the 1980s and Mexico a few years later with an escalation of violence

The Asian giant recently announced stepped-up investments in the Andean country, but experts warn against conflating political allegiances with economic interests

The discovery of 484 kg of drugs on a plane at Barajas airport has prompted the La Paz government to acknowledge that drug trafficking has ‘permeated’ its institutions

The man who ended the revolutionary career of the guerrilla leader in 1967 retired as a general and was later a political figure and writer

Speaking from Mexico, to where he fled after stepping down on Sunday amid growing violence over election fraud claims, the former Bolivian president tells EL PAÍS that he is the victim of a coup

President Evo Morales sends high-level delegation to Buenos Aires in bid to reduce tensions

Bolivian president gives the pontiff some unusual advice on his visit to the Vatican

Son of Bolivian president and government lobbyist apparently not dead, as family had claimed

Final official count in referendum shows 51.30% rejected altering the Constitution

The president will be remembered as the country’s first indigenous head of state