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Bolivia Election Crisis

With eye on Bolivia vote, Evo Morales sets up Argentina base

17-12-2019 16:47 Bolivian said Tuesday in Buenos Aires that he would campaign for the presidential candidate of his party in elections expected within the next several months, though a date has not been set.

Bolivia Election Crisis

Bolivia arms 'anti-terror' group to 'dismantle' foreign groups 'threatening' country

04-12-2019 11:21 The new interim government of right-wing president Jeanine Añez has denounced foreign influence in the country since taking power, naming Colombians, Argentines, Peruvians, Cubans and Venezuelans at different times.

Bolivia Election Crisis

Bolivian senator says Evo Morales fell due to betrayals, errors

27-11-2019 16:34 Meanwhile, the interim government says it will charge the former president with 'sedition and treason,' and names the first ambassador to the United States in 11 years.

Bolivia Election Crisis

Bolivia OKs new vote to replace Morales, but date not set

25-11-2019 18:04 The measure signed by President Jeanine Áñez doesn't set a date for the new vote. That will be up to a new electoral tribunal that hasn't yet been named.

UNREST IN BOLIVIA

Food, gasoline shortages reported in Bolivian cities

19-11-2019 10:11 Bolivia's interim government said Monday that its efforts to resupply La Paz faced challenges because demonstrators cut off some transport routes.

INTERVIEW

Ivan Briscoe: Bolivia’s new leaders must not reverse what Morales did

16-11-2019 12:13 The situation in Bolivia is changing at a rapid clip. Here are the biggest takeaways to keep in mind as things evolve, according to the regional director of the International Crisis Group NGO.

BOLIVIAN POLITICAL CRISIS

Argentine government 'doesn't recognise' Añez as Bolivia's president

13-11-2019 17:41 Jeanine Añez declared herself interim president of the crisis-torn Andean country even though she lacked quorum in the Senate, just hours after Evo Morales flew off to self-exile in Mexico.

CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS

Cambiemos 'repudiates attacks against democratic system' in Bolivia

13-11-2019 16:40 After a day of deliberation, ruling coalition's congressional bloc agrees unified position on events in Bolivia.

Bolivia Election Crisis

Ex-foreign minister Malcorra calls Bolivian events a ‘coup’

12-11-2019 10:45 In a stark departure from language of current foreign minister, Jorge Faurie, Susana Malcorra says recent events in Bolivia can "objectively be talked about as a coup.”