Bolivia

BBC reporter Will Grant has produced an excellent look at the group of strongmen who came from left fieldIf there was ever a surreal start to a trip to Cuba, it was the one that coincided with the news Fidel Castro had died. That was what I woke up to on 26 November 2016, hours before my husband and I were due to fly to Havana. A day later, we found […]

A friendly pitch invader runs on to the field in Potosi, Bolivia, with a football boot in its mouth. The game is disrupted for a couple of minutes before the dog is carried off the field by one of the players. The game between The Strongest and Nacional Potosi ended 3-0 to The StrongestThe best of 2020's amazing world of sport – video highlights Continue […]

‘Ecological Swat team’ discovers 20 unknown species in Bolivia including viper and butterfly An “ecological Swat team” has discovered 20 previously unknown species in the misty cloud forests and cascading waterfalls that flank Bolivia’s Zongo valley.Among the animals found were a minuscule 10mm-long frog, a pit viper, two metalmark butterflies and […]

Chapare virus, which causes haemorrhagic fevers, was transmitted to health workers in La Paz and resulted in three deaths Researchers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have discovered human-to-human transmission of a rare virus in Bolivia belonging to a family of viruses that can cause haemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola.The news is a […]

Tens of thousands of supporters greet Bolivian ex-president during his triumphant return to ChimoréTens of thousands of jubilant followers have welcomed Evo Morales back to the coca-growing region from which he fled into exile exactly one year ago after what they branded a racist rightwing coup.“Evo, Evo, Evo,” chanted the people who had travelled from […]

Bolivia’s former leader Evo Morales made a dramatic homecoming on Monday, greeted by crowds of cheering supporters as he crossed the border from Argentina, where he had been living in exile since late last year Continue reading...

Ex-president greeted with thousands of flag-waving supporters a day after new leftwing president, Luis Arce, sworn inThousands of flag-waving supporters have greeted Evo Morales at Bolivia’s southern border, as the country’s exiled former president began a triumphant homecoming that suggests his four-decade political career may be far from over.“As […]

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Luis Arce takes power after landslide win for Movement for Socialism, but experts predict bumpy road aheadBolivia’s new president, Luis Arce, has vowed to rebuild his country’s battered economy, revive ties with leftwing neighbours and serve one term only, as he prepared to take office after October’s landslide election.Speaking to the Guardian before […]

Unease at reappearance of charismatic but divisive figure after last year’s disputed electionBolivia’s exiled former president, Evo Morales, is set to make a triumphant homecoming next week, leading an 800-vehicle convoy to the jungle-clad coca-growing region where he began his political career.The Bolivian newspaper Página Siete reported that Morales […]

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 […]