Bolivian President Luis Arce recently told the Associated Press that his mountainous South American country is not struggling in an economic crisis. Many Bolivians and most economists would disagree. Commercial activity in the capital of La Paz ground to a halt recently, for example, after Arce...
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Bolivian authorities arrested a military leader on Wednesday evening hours after he apparently led a failed coup attempt during which soldiers stormed the presidential palace, the BBC reported. Gen. Juan José Zúñiga, whose military command had been withdrawn a few days before, had ordered troops to...
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China has invested more than a billion dollars in lithium and other mines in Bolivia. Former President Evo Morales and current President Luis Arce – both of the leftwing Movement for Socialism political party – actively cultivated this capital for years, reported the Diplomat. Now, however,...
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Protests continued in the Bolivian farming heartland of Santa Cruz this week, as thousands of protesters have been marching in the streets and blocking highways following the arrest of the province’s governor last month, Reuters reported. The unrest began soon after authorities detained conservative Governor Luis...
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NEED TO KNOW Back to the Future BOLIVIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8ed01a1e-5cea-4b63-b4c0-c3727f7de51c.png"] Bolivian President Luis Arce and dozens of others recently attended a ritual at the Tiwanaku pre-Inca religious complex near La Paz, one of the South American country’s two capitals. Dressed in the traditional, alpaca-and-llama-wool multicolored ponchos of the indigenous...
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A Bolivian court sentenced former President Jeanine Añez to 10 years in prison following allegations that she illegally took over the presidency in 2019 in a coup, in a case that has raised concerns about the country’s judicial independence, the New York Times reported. The court...
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Bolivian inmates can reduce their prison terms by reading books in a new initiative aimed at spreading literacy and hope in a country that offers very few second chances, Reuters reported this week. The state program called “Books Behind Bars” offers detainees shorter sentences of days...
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