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LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivian armed forces took over the central square in La Paz on Wednesday and an armored vehicle rammed the entrance to the presidential palace as leftist President Luis Arce ...
An official complaint rejecting the two parliamentarians' "meddling in Bolivia's internal political affairs" is delivered to the Chilean and Spanish embassies. [22] In the United States, former minister of government Arturo Murillo is sentenced to seventy months in prison for the crimes of bribery and money laundering.
Bolivia marked its transition to democracy in 1982 when the Armed Forces ceded power to a civilian-led government elected two years prior. [2] Despite continued economic turmoil and political instability, the return to civilian rule mostly closed the cycle of volatility that caused the country to experience a multitude of attempted and successful revolutions and coups d'état in the two ...
In 2001, the network covered the situation of then-president Hugo Banzer Suárez, which at the time was diagnosed with cancer and went away for health reasons to Washington DC. Unitel dispatched Karla Revollo for this end, which were later sent daily to Bolivia, as well as his later return and death. [1]
The United Nations warned on Saturday violence in Bolivia could "spin out of control" following recent skirmishes between security forces and coca farmers loyal to ousted President Evo Morales ...
At the same time, former president Evo Morales has given Luis Arce government ultimatum to make cabinet change within 24 hours or expect more protests from his supporters. Morales also stated that the Bolivian people had “enough of betrayal and above all enough of corruption, protection of drug trafficking and economic mismanagement”.
On 18 Dec, Osvaldo Chirveches, Jesuit priest and president of the Conference of Religious of Bolivia observed that "Bolivia is beginning to move and show more positivism. Given the current situation with the recent change of government there are discordant voices and opinions found but we hope that the elections called will mark a new horizon". [3]
It said that Bolivia was one of the worst affected countries and calculated that Bolivia had five times as many deaths in July as in previous years. [216] Writing in the New York Times in September 2020, Diego von Vacano, who is an expert in Latin America, said Añez' interim government had mismanaged the COVID-19 crisis.