Tag: #Bolivia
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Bolivia ex-president’s pre-trial detention extended by two months
Former Bolivian interim president Jeanine Anez’s pre-trial detention was extended by two months
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Prosecutors seek six months’ pre-trial detention for ex-president Anez
La Paz, March 14 (AFP/APP):Bolivian prosecutors sought six months of pre-trial detention Sunday for ex-president Jeanine Anez as opposition groups called for protests against her arrest on charges widely denounced as political score-settling. In the indictment, seen by AFP, prosecutors asked for the provisional imprisonment of Anez, 53, and two ministers in her year-long caretaker…
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Bolivia Ex-President Anez Arrested in ‘Coup’ Probe
Bolivia’s Ex-President Anez has been arrested in a ‘coup’ probe.
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Seven students plummet to death at Bolivia university
7 students died and five were seriously injured when they fell from the fourth floor of a university building in Bolivia
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20 dead after bus plunges off cliff in Bolivia
La Paz, March 2 (AFP/APP):Twenty people died and more than a dozen were injured when a passenger bus fell off a cliff in central Bolivia Tuesday, police said. The bus plunged some 150 meters (500 feet) after leaving the road between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz in the early morning hours, said traffic police chief Helsner…
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Bolivia court disqualifies Morales from running for Senate
La Paz, Feb 21 (AFP/APP): Bolivia’s supreme electoral court on Thursday disqualified exiled former president Evo Morales from running for a Senate seat in May’s general election, saying he did not meet residency requirements. Morales is currently living in exile in Argentina having fled Bolivia in November after resigning as president following three weeks of…
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Bolivia president asks all ministers to resign
La Paz, Jan 27 (AFP/APP): Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Anez asked all her ministers to resign a little more than three months before a general election, a statement from the presidency said on Sunday. The news came just hours after communication minister Roxana Lizarraga resigned in protest at Anez’s decision to stand as a presidential…
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Bolivia orders arrest of ex-president Morales
La Paz, Dec 19 (AFP/APP): Bolivia’s attorney general on Wednesday ordered the arrest of exiled former president Evo Morales after the interim government accused him of sedition and terrorism. Public prosecutors in La Paz signed a warrant for police to detain the 60-year-old and take him to the attorney general’s office. Morales fled Bolivia for…
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Morales arrives in Argentina to seek asylum
Buenos Aires, Dec 13 (AFP/APP): Bolivia’s exiled ex-president Evo Morales arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday where Argentina’s new leftist government of President Alberto Fernandez has granted him asylum. Morales “has just landed at Ezeiza (airport). He’s coming to stay in Argentina as an asylum seeker and will then have refugee status,” Foreign Minister Felipe…
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On the frontline: Bolivians face upheaval and uncertainty
La Paz, Nov 30 (AFP/APP): Weeks of protests, blockades and food shortages rocked Bolivia’s sprawling cities of La Paz and El Alto, making daily life difficult and dangerous. The country’s worst political crisis in more than a decade was ignited by a disputed October 20 election. Incumbent president Evo Morales claimed victory, but opposition groups…