Bolivia

On Friday authorities confirmed Mas’ candidate, Luis Arce, won the presidential election – overcoming the ‘worst’ moment of their 25-year historyTwo agonising weeks had passed since Evo Morales was driven from Bolivia and in his vice-president’s recently vacated chambers one of their party’s rising stars sat, crestfallen and drained.“It […]

This week we look at the impact that America’s vote will have beyond its borders; from the climate to the future of the Iran deal. Get the Guardian Weekly delivered at home hereNearly there. Nearly there. The 2020 US presidential election – after surely the strangest campaign ever conducted – is just over a week away. Donald Trump’s theatre of the […]

The landslide vote for Luis Arce is reason for optimism, but Bolivia still requires major resources to contain Covid-19On 18 October, the progressive candidate, Luis Arce, decisively won Bolivia’s presidential election, beating his nearest rival by about 20 points according to exit polls. His party, Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas), also apparently retained […]

Exit polls for presidential election project win for Luis Arce as rival concedes defeatEvo Morales’s leftwing party is celebrating a stunning political comeback after its candidate appeared to trounce rivals in Bolivia’s presidential election.The official results of Sunday’s twice-postponed election had yet to be announced on Monday afternoon, but […]

A year after the country’s first indigenous president was controversially ousted, his party is well placed to win a rerun presidential electionDavid Ticona Mamani felt despair and foreboding when Evo Morales was forced from his Andean homeland last November amid civil unrest, electoral meltdown and what supporters of Bolivia’s first indigenous president […]

Wildfires, mostly caused by land clearing for cattle grazing and soya production, have set four nations ablazePrimatologist Martin Kowalewski is measuring the scale of the fires raging across Latin America not in satellite images, but in the number of caraya monkeys (black-and-gold howlers) that have succumbed to the flames.“Of the 20 family groups that […]

Jeanine Añez says she wants to avoid splitting the vote for others running against socialist Luís Arce of Evo Morales’s MAS partyBolivia’s conservative interim president, Jeanine Añez, has pulled out of next month’s general election, saying she wanted to avoid splitting the vote for other candidates running against the frontrunning socialist party […]

The Organization of American States had a key role in the destruction of the country’s democracy last NovemberBolivia has descended into a nightmare of political repression and racist state violence since the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was overthrown by the military on 10 November last year. That month was the second-deadliest in […]

Human Rights Watch report accuses administration of Jeanine Áñez of overseeing legal offensive against people linked to MoralesBolivia’s rightwing caretaker government is abusing the justice system to wage a politically motivated witch-hunt against former president Evo Morales and his allies, a new report by Human Rights Watch claims.The report accuses […]

France adds work areas to growing list of places where people must wear masks; WHO says young not invincible; South Africa trial to involve 2,900 people Global report: France tightens mask rules as cases rise in EuropeCountries led by women handled coronavirus better, says studyAustralia does deal to secure potential Oxford vaccine for freeTrump calls out […]

Bolivia considers a pragmatic, if not macabre, option as it struggles to keep pace with Covid-19 deathsAs surging Covid-19 cases across Latin America leave cemeteries and funeral homes struggling to keep pace, engineers in Bolivia have come up with a solution as pragmatic as it is macabre: a mobile crematorium.The five-metre by two-and-half-metre oven is […]

Demonstrators allied to Evo Morales say authorities are using Covid-19 to delay voteDemonstrators in Bolivia have dynamited Andean passes, scattered boulders across highways and dug trenches along rural roads to protest against repeated delays to a rerun of last October’s deeply contentious election, which led to the downfall of the long-serving leftwing […]

Grover Ponce, 42, died after being shuttled between six different health facilities as his family watched in rising desperationCoronavirus – latest global updatesIn the two weeks before he died from suspected Covid-19, Grover Ponce was shuttled between six hospitals, as his wife Paola Medina battled the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Bolivia’s health […]

Unit recovers 420 bodies across La Paz and Santa Cruz, with most believed to have had virus Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBolivia’s plan to hold elections in September is increasingly in doubt amid rising coronavirus deaths, and reports that police have recovered the bodies of hundreds of suspected Covid-19 victims.In the […]

Hard-hit city of Cochabamba endorses chlorine dioxideHealth ministry warns against use as 10 people poisonedLong lines form every morning in one of the Bolivian cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic as desperate people wait to buy small bottles of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleaching agent that has been falsely touted as a cure for Covid-19 and […]