Tag: Bolivia

• Friday, August 21st 2026 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolivian prosecutors open a second case against the consultant who advised Milei and Paz

  

  Prosecutors in La Paz have opened an investigation on their own initiative into alleged illicit enrichment by Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, who was charged this week in Santa Cruz with attempted femicide following the shooting of his former partner, lawyer Nadia Beller.

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• Wednesday, August 19th 2026 - 09:52 UTC

  An Argentine consultant who advised Milei's campaign detained in Bolivia after a shooting

  

  Bolivian police detained Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo in the early hours of Tuesday at Viru Viru international airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, hours after his former partner, Bolivian lawyer Nadia Beller, was shot three times outside a hotel in the city. Cerimedo has not been formally charged and his involvement in the attack, which remains under investigation, has not been established.

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• Sunday, August 9th 2026 - 20:44 UTC

  Bolivia records its first same-sex civil marriage after a court ruling

  

  Bolivia has recorded its first civil marriage between two people of the same sex, held on Friday, August 7, in Santa Cruz, the country's most populous city, following a legal process that lasted three years and ten months.

• Thursday, July 30th 2026 - 06:37 UTC

  Bolivia issues arrest order against Morales over May and June road blockades

  

  The Santa Cruz departmental prosecutor's office issued an arrest order on Wednesday against former president Evo Morales (2006-2019) over his alleged role in the road blockades and protests that paralyzed parts of Bolivia for 53 days in May and June.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2026 - 08:28 UTC

  Mercosur leaders push for a regional security architecture against organized crime

  

  The fight against transnational organized crime emerged as one of the central themes of Mercosur's 68th summit of heads of state, held on Tuesday in the Paraguayan city of Luque, where several leaders called for building a regional security “architecture” with concrete goals and deadlines. The issue ran through the addresses of the bloc's presidents and those of its associated states, at a summit where Paraguay handed over the pro tempore presidency to Uruguay.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2026 - 19:11 UTC

  Bolivia's blockade crisis leaves at least 16 dead as the government calls unions to talks

  

  The crisis caused by more than seven weeks of road blockades in Bolivia, driven by sectors demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz, has left at least 16 people dead, as the government called the Bolivian Workers' Center (COB) on Wednesday to a dialogue to seek a way out. By midday, the country's largest union confederation had not confirmed its attendance.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2026 - 08:07 UTC

  Bolivia's Paz bets on wearing down protests and holds off deploying the army

  

  Bolivia's government has opted to wear down the social protests that have shaken the country for about six weeks, rather than resort to a hard line. President Rodrigo Paz promulgated a law regulating states of exception in early June, but has so far not ordered the deployment of the Armed Forces to clear the roads, leaning instead toward exhausting the protesters and dismantling the movements demanding his resignation through the detention or persuasion of their leaders. “The new Bolivia will be built with dialogue, without giving way to violence,” said presidential spokesman José Luis Gálvez.

• Friday, June 5th 2026 - 22:49 UTC

  Bolivia's blockade crisis reopens a deep racial divide

  

  The social conflict in Bolivia has split the country once again. The road blockade led by Indigenous peasants, which has besieged La Paz for more than a month, has brought expressions of racism to the surface in the capital. Worn down by the lack of gasoline and food and by soaring prices, some residents lash out at the protesters —and the hostility runs in both directions.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2026 - 16:54 UTC

  Bolivia's blockade crisis risks tipping into civilian clashes, analysts warn

  

  Bolivia's political crisis threatens to spill over into confrontations between urban and rural populations, after nearly a month of road blockades that have disrupted supplies of food, medicine and fuel —especially in the Andean region— and left at least nine people dead. Analysts Pedro Portugal and Gabriela Canedo warned of the danger in remarks to the news agency EFE, pointing to clashes fueled by an ethnic and cultural fracture and by the alleged inaction of Rodrigo Paz's government, whose resignation the mobilized sectors are demanding.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2026 - 10:50 UTC

  La Paz endures a month of blockades as food and fuel shortages deepen

  

  La Paz has spent a month under blockade. The main roads into Bolivia's administrative capital have been cut for four weeks, and shortages of food and fuel worsen by the day. Frustration is mounting among residents: some demand the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz for failing to keep his campaign promises, while others call for a firm hand and the deployment of the army to lift the siege. Most agree that the president, who took office less than seven months ago, should have acted sooner, when the protests began.