Bolivia’s former president believes the protests against incumbent Rodrigo Paz will not be resolved through military intervention: ‘If he wants to avoid bloodshed, elections should be held’
Despite allegedly huge natural gas reserves, a lack of exploration and manipulated figures have exhausted the system that sustained the country for two decades, leading to widespread protests
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau spoke with the Andean country’s president, Rodrigo Paz, in a show of support
The former president, who is in hiding in the Chapare coca-growing region, is accused of impregnating a minor while he was in office
The country where the Argentinian revolutionary was assassinated has changed a street name honoring him, decorated his executioners, and launched a campaign to remove his face from sight
The Latin America and Caribbean International Economic Forum 2026, organized by CAF in collaboration with Grupo Prisa, brings together seven heads of state in an informal ‘Latin American Davos’
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
