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At least 20 killed as cash-laden military cargo plane crashes in Bolivia
Published: February 28, 2026 03:05
Riot police use teargas to disperse people gathering around wreckage of plane loaded with money from central bankAt least 20 people have died and dozens have been injured after a military cargo plane carrying banknotes crashed while landing near Bolivia’s…
‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
Published: February 26, 2026 05:00
After a nine-year-old girl was kidnapped and taken from Spain to Bolivia, authorities feared the worst. They found her in the rainforest nine months later – but that wasn’t the end of her ordealOn 27 August 2013, a tall, spirited nine-year-old girl with…
Bolivia’s ex-leader Evo Morales reappears after months-long unexplained absence
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/bolivia-evo-morales-public-appearance
Published: February 20, 2026 04:10
Long-serving socialist former leader Evo Morales has reappeared in his political stronghold after almost seven weeks of unexplained absenceBolivia’s long-serving socialist former leader, Evo Morales, reappeared on Thursday in his political stronghold of…
‘Coca leaf is life itself’: Andean growers’ hopes fade as WHO upholds global curb
Published: February 10, 2026 15:00
Under US pressure as part of the ‘war on drugs’, the WHO still categorises the sacred Indigenous remedy as akin to heroin or fentanyl, despite its many therapeutic propertiesFor thousands of years, Andean people living around what is now the town of…
Where’s Evo? Missing Morales mystery as Bolivia’s ex-president goes to ground
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/07/evo-morales-bolivia
Published: February 7, 2026 11:00
Once a highly visible figure despite being wanted on human trafficking charges, the former leader has not been seen since shortly after the US kidnapped Venezuela’s presidentFor more than a year, he stayed hidden in plain sight: despite an arrest warrant…
The shot that got me a police beating: Rod Morris’s best photograph
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/21/rod-morris-best-photograph-police-beating
Published: January 21, 2026 15:00
‘After I took this, police officers bundled me into the back of a car and drove me to the local station where I was questioned for a long time. On the way out, they took turns to punch and kick me’In 1993, a photograph I’d taken of a bus driver in Luxor,…
‘We’re in danger of extinction’: can Bolivia’s ‘water people’ survive a rising tide of salt and migration?
Published: January 16, 2026 13:00
The Uru Chipaya, one of South America’s most ancient civilisations, are battling drought, salinity and an exodus of their people as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on their landIn the small town of Chipaya, everything is dry. Only a few people walk along…
US attack on Venezuela will decide direction of South America’s vast mineral wealth
Published: January 7, 2026 17:37
Outcome of aggression will determine whether rare earths and other resources drive energy transition – or strengthen US military power and oil interestsThe US’s first overt attack on an Amazon nation last weekend is a new phase in its extractivist rivalry…
Former Bolivian president Luis Arce detained on corruption charges
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/10/bolivia-luis-arce
Published: December 11, 2025 14:09
Allegations he allowed state funds for Indigenous projects to be transferred to government officials’ accountsBolivia’s former president Luis Arce was detained on Wednesday on charges that he “enabled illicit enrichment” by allegedly allowing state funds…
Bolivia’s ex-president who oversaw bloody crackdown on protesters freed from prison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/bolivia-ex-president-freed-prison
Published: November 6, 2025 18:12
Release follows supreme court ruling that overturned Jeanine Áñez’s conviction for allegedly staging coup to seize powerThe former interim president who oversaw a bloody crackdown on protesters in Bolivia has been freed from prison after almost five years,…
Rodrigo Paz Pereira wins Bolivia’s presidential runoff marking a new shift to the right
Published: October 20, 2025 01:06
Sunday’s election marked the first time since 2005 that no candidate from Evo Morales’ Mas party was on the ballotCentre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday and will be the country’s next president, marking a…
Bolivia to vote in presidential runoff that will turn it to the right
Published: October 19, 2025 06:00
End of almost two decades of leftist rule could revive ‘war on drugs’ in change of approach to coca cultivationBolivians go to the polls on Sunday in an election that, whatever the result, will mark a complete shift to the right after nearly 20 years under…
US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
Published: October 17, 2025 11:00
The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther northGovernments across Latin America are stepping up efforts to vaccinate their…
‘When the forests burn, the sickness comes’: how protecting trees shields millions from disease
Published: September 14, 2025 05:00
Preserving the Amazonian rainforest keeps communities safe from the health risks of wildfires and deforestation, research has foundFor Bolivian park ranger Marcos Uzquiano, the fallout from wildfires in the Amazon goes far beyond the damage they do to…
‘When can I go back to school?’: communities in danger hold on to education in Latin America – picture essay
Published: September 7, 2025 06:00
Some of the most disadvantaged communities in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are taking part in Plan International’s Safe Schools project“When can I go back to school?” That’s the first question many children across Latin America start their day with.…
‘The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia
Published: September 3, 2025 11:00
Politicians have long promised the critical metal will rescue the economy but Indigenous locals say the push to exploit vast reserves threatens the ecosystem and their livelihoods• Photographs by Sara Aliaga TiconaGrowing up near Bolivia’s Uyuni salt…
How towering dominance of Bolivia’s socialist party came tumbling down
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/bolivia-presidential-election-socialism
Published: August 20, 2025 11:00
In strongholds such as El Alto, support for the Mas party that once made Evo Morales Bolivia’s first Indigenous president has ebbed away – leaving it on the brink of extinctionAmid the almost monochrome landscape of bare-brick buildings in the…
Two decades of leftwing dominance end in Bolivia as rightwingers head to election runoff
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/bolivia-presidential-election-preliminary-results
Published: August 18, 2025 15:06
Movimiento al Socialismo’s time runs out as economic crisis grips countryBolivia’s presidential election will go to a runoff for the first time, with two rightwing candidates competing for the presidency – marking the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by…
Bolivia votes out ruling leftist government amid economic crisis – video
Published: August 18, 2025 05:51
Bolivia’s presidential election will go to a run-off for the first time, with two rightwing candidates competing for the presidency – marking the end of nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo. The candidate with the most…
Bolivians go to polls in election that could end 20 years of leftist rule
Published: August 17, 2025 18:52
Rightwing candidates lead polling ahead of fragmented left amid country’s worst economic crisis in four decadesBolivians are going to the polls in an election that could mark a shift to the right and the end of nearly 20 years of rule by the leftist…