Bolivia's judicial elections, the only ones of their kind in the world, are set to take place on Sunday amid widespread voter apathy, political tensions, and accusations of judicial manipulation.
The vote, a partial election for four of the nine (...)
Bolivia's government has rejected claims by the former president, Evo Morales, that it ordered a targeted attack on him.
Morales says his car came under sustained gunfire on Sunday night in the Cochabamba region, in what he condemned as an attempt (...)
Bolivia has arrested more than a dozen high-ranking military and intelligence officials following a failed attempt to unseat the country's president in a coup allegedly led by its former army chief.
Military officials first held meetings in May to (...)
Bolivian police have arrested the leader of an attempted coup, hours after the presidential palace in the capital La Paz was stormed by soldiers.
Armored vehicles and troops had taken up position on Murillo Square where key government buildings are (...)
Bolivia has cut diplomatic ties with Israel over what it describes as "aggressive and disproportionate" military actions in Gaza.
Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani said Bolivia called for a ceasefire and would be supplying the blockaded Gaza (...)
The Bolivian general who captured the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and became a national hero has died aged 84.
In 1967 Gary Prado Salmón led a military operation in Bolivia, backed by US secret service agents, that defeated a communist (...)
Akhir 25, 1432 / March 30, 2011, SPA -- Bolivia's Health Ministry Tuesday called on its people to keep vigilant against any symptoms of dengue after 23 fatalities and 4,000 cases of infection were reported nationwide in recent days.
Most cases (...)
Akhir 13, 1432 H/March 18, 2011, SPA -- Bolivian authorities said that a commercial plane carrying 33 passengers touched down on its belly after its landing gear failed to open properly, according to AP.
No injuries were reported in Friday's (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- Intense rains and the overflowing of rivers in Bolivia killed 52 people and affected the lives of some 68,000 this year, according to an official report Wednesday.
"La Nina has damaged many regions in Bolivia. (...)
Awwal 24, 1432 H/Feb 27, 2011, SPA -- Heavy rains caused a hilltop to collapse in a poor neighborhood of the Bolivian capital Sunday, cracking roads, destroying at least 400 homes and burying people's belongings under mud and debris, according to (...)
Awwal 08, 1432, Feb 11, 2011, SPA -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has abruptly abandoned the southern highlands city of Oruro after protesters angered by rising prices booed him and set off dynamite, according to AP.
Morales canceled plans to (...)
Flooding in Bolivia has cost at least 22 people their lives, with at least six others missing in the province of Chuquisaca, police chief Iver Marquez said Monday.
A truck and a bus were swept away by the Molle Punku River in a remote area some 30 (...)
The Bolivian government Friday issued a red alert due to the dengue's having spread to seven out of nine departments.
"We are working to intensify epidemic vigilance, mainly in Trinidad, the place with most cases. The country is on red alert due (...)
Five policemen were injured and 16 demonstrators arrested Thursday in Bolivia after a day of street protests against a recent fuel price hike.
Accoeding to dpa, the government raised fuel prices by 83 per cent on Sunday. Government plans to raise (...)
Bolivian President Evo Morales raised the minimum wage by 20 percent on Wednesday in a bid to defuse social tensions over hefty fuel price increases that have sparked protests in the impoverished Andean country, according to Reuters.
Morales' (...)
Bolivia has recognized Palestine as an independent
and sovereign state within the 1967 borders, dpa quoted Bolivian President Evo
Morales as announcing Wednesday.
Morales told a press conference at the presidential palace in La
Paz that he (...)
Former Bolivian president Juan Pereda Asbun was arrested for flashing a group of minors in a suburb of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and police later found him to be in
the possession of drugs.
Public prosecutor Francisca Rivero, (...)
Bolivian President Evo Morales called on Saturday for an emergency meeting of South American presidents to resolve a stand-off between Colombia and neighboring Venezuela that has raised tensions in the Andes, according to Reuters.
Venezuela's (...)
Bolivian police have been moving in to the offices of private electricity companies. That has many suspecting at least some of the companies will be nationalized, AP reoprted.
Cochabamba electric company union leader Alfredo Viscarra says more than (...)
Bolivian President Evo Morales
proposed Wednesday that South Americans vote in a
continentwide referendum on Colombia's plan to give the
U.S. military greater access to its military bases, AP reported.
Morales said he will take the proposal to (...)
Comments on the ongoing political crisis in Honduras continued to spell tension Friday, a day before commissions
representing the two sides return to the negotiations table chaired
by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, according to dpa.
Former (...)
The secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS) arrived in La Paz Friday and stressed the organization's support to pacify growing unrest in Bolivia's troubled eastern crescent that has centred on income from natural gas and on (...)
A pipeline company responsible for half of Bolivia's natural gas exports to Brazil says those exports have been completely cut off, AP reported.
A senior advisor to the pipeline company, Transierra, tells The Associated Press that a pipeline that (...)
Just hours after the official presidential
helicopter transported Bolivia's Evo Morales, the aircraft crashed,
killing one Brazilian and four Venezuelan pilots, defence officials
said Monday, according to dpa.
The Super Puma aircraft - provided (...)
Police say at least 46 people were killed when a truck carrying farmers plunged 650 feet (200 meters) into a ravine in Bolivia's southern Andes, the Associated Press reported.
Col. Julio Sepcel says about 60 people were aboard the truck when it (...)
