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Aymara Indigenous people raise their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight during celebrations of the Andean New Year, which marks the Southern Hemisphere's winter solstice, in El Alto, Bolivia, June 21, 2026

Latin America / 26 June 2026

Bolivia: The Constitution of the Plurinational State at Stake

26 June 2026

Bolivia’s protests are a response to Rodrigo Paz’s attempt to privatise core sectors of the economy and unravel two decades of socialist progress, say WIPHALAS ACROSS THE WORLD

Military police clear a highway blocked by anti-government protesters in Llavini, Bolivia, June 21, 2026

Latin America / 22 June 2026

Bolivia clears anti-government roadblocks after emergency decree

22 June 2026

Residents walk on a highway after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency to empower the military to remove road blockades, in El Alto, Bolivia, June 20, 2026

Latin America / 21 June 2026

Bolivian government declares state of emergency to crack down on anti-government road blockades

21 June 2026

Police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters blocking a highway in Vinto, Bolivia, June 8, 2026

Bolivia / 9 June 2026

Protesters clash with police during clampdown by Bolivian authorities

9 June 2026

A police officer runs after launching tear gas at protesters during an anti-government demonstration in La Paz, Bolivia, May 25, 2026

Bolivia / 3 June 2026

Bolivia ministers resign as protests continue to rage

3 June 2026

Anti-government protesters hold signs reading in Spanish

Bolivia / 19 May 2026

Bolivia protesters clash with police as unrest widens

19 May 2026

Global news / 17 May 2026

World in Brief

17 May 2026

Snippets of news from around the world

Artisanal miners clash with police during a protest demanding access to expanded mining areas in La Paz, Bolivia, May 14, 2026

Bolivia / 15 May 2026

Clashes erupt in Bolivia as police clash with miners

15 May 2026

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz attends the opening of the annual Alasita Fair in La Paz, Bolivia, January 24, 2026

Latin America / 27 January 2026

Bolivian government removes TeleSur from national television programming

27 January 2026

Journalists and opposition politicians have described the decision to remove TeleSur from national TV programming as censorship against alternative and critical journalism, reports PABLO MERIGUET

Miners march to protest President Rodrigo Paz's decision to remove fuel subsidies in La Paz, Bolivia, December 29, 2025

Latin America / 31 December 2025

Bolivian police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at striking workers

31 December 2025

Protests / 23 December 2025

Bolivian trade unionists vow to besiege parliament until Paz reverses end to fuel subsidies

23 December 2025

Fuel prices / 21 December 2025

Bolivian unions announce indefinite strike to defeat ‘gasolinazo’ decree in first big battle with new president

21 December 2025

People walk past an empty gas station that ran out of fuel in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, the day after Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz announced the end of fuel subsidies

Round-up / 19 December 2025

World in brief: December 19, 2025

19 December 2025

Presidential candidate Rodrigo Paz addresses supporters after preliminary results showed him leading in the presidential runoff election in La Paz, Bolivia, October 19, 2025

Bolivia / 20 October 2025

Right-wing Paz wins Bolivian presidential election

20 October 2025

A protester holds a sign that reads in Spanish,

Bolivia / 27 August 2025

2019 coup masterminds freed as Bolivia lurches right

27 August 2025

Presidential candidate Rodrigo Paz, center, addresses supporters after early results showed him leading in the presidential election in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025

Latin America / 18 August 2025

Bolivia's presidential vote heads to a run off between centre and right-wing candidates

18 August 2025

A woman walks past a campaign center for supporters of former President Evo Morales who are in favor or a null vote in the upcoming presidential election in El Alto, Bolivia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025

Latin America / 14 August 2025

Morales calls for spoilt ballots in Bolivian election

14 August 2025

Supporters of former President Evo Morales march demanding that he be declared eligible to run for president again, in La Paz, Bolivia, May 26, 2025

Latin America / 27 May 2025

Morales' supporters vow to block roads until ex-president given permission to stand again

27 May 2025

Anti-government demonstrators cut down trees to block a road while protesting a law that overhauls the social security agency, in Piriati, Panama, May 20, 2025

Panama / 22 May 2025

Panamanian union leader seeks asylum from Bolivia

22 May 2025

Bolivia / 21 May 2025

Morales banned from presidential election

21 May 2025

World / 5 April 2025

World in brief Saturday April 5 2025

5 April 2025

Snippets of news from around the globe

Women chant slogans during a protest marking International W

World / 9 March 2025

Women take to the streets across the world demanding end to inequality and violence

9 March 2025

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales participates in an off

Features / 25 February 2025

Bolivia: the poor take the high ground with a new political party

25 February 2025

After years of struggle in the MAS party, the mass movement of left-wing peasants and workers has founded a new party, with former president Evo Morales as its candidate for the summer’s elections, writes CINDY FORSTER

A drone photo shows displaced Palestinians returning to Rafa

Features / 21 January 2025

The Palestinian struggle resonates with indigenous resistance in Latin America

21 January 2025

MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE, an indigenous activist from Bolivia, argues that the plight the modern Palestinians face at the hands of Israel is analogous to the genocidal colonialism of European settlers four centuries ago

Former Bolivia's President Evo Morales points to a bullet ho

World / 17 December 2024

Bolivian prosecutors seek the arrest of former President Morales on sexual abuse charge

17 December 2024

OUSTED: A man holds a sign that reads in Spanish: ‘Evo [Mo

Science and Society / 20 November 2024

How lithium became a new global flashpoint

20 November 2024

Lithium is crucial for batteries — but because deposits form only under rare geological conditions, its extraction is a geopolitical flashpoint between the imperial West and the rest of the world, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

World / 4 November 2024

Morales vows to continue hunger strike until Bolivian President Arce negotiates

4 November 2024

Former President Evo Morales speaks to supporters after marc

World / 29 October 2024

Bolivian Indigenous activists blame government for an alleged assassination on former president Morales

29 October 2024

Bolivia's Diego Medina celebrates at the end of a qualifying

Men’s Football / 11 October 2024

Bolivia hit the heights in World Cup qualifying

11 October 2024

JAMES NALTON on how the national football team stunned Colombia 1-0 on Thursday night and now have their sights set on success in Buenos Aires when they battle with Argentina

Supporters of former President Evo Morales (below) face off

World / 23 September 2024

Bolivian government supporters and security forces clash with pro-Morales protesters

23 September 2024

Supporters of former President Evo Morales, who are marching

World / 18 September 2024

Counterprotesters clash with Morales supporters in Bolivia

18 September 2024

Police keep protesters from blocking more lanes as they prot

World / 17 September 2024

Morales calls for Bolivians to take to the streets to protest against President Arce

17 September 2024

Bolivian President Luis Arce addresses an assembly of farm w

World / 7 August 2024

Bolivian President announces national referendums on fuel subsidies and presidential terms

7 August 2024

Bolivia's former President Evo Morales holds an Indigenous s

Features / 5 August 2024

What is Latin America’s left really saying?

5 August 2024

From bitter experience, the leaders of Honduras and Bolivia have spoken out against US electoral interference, writes RICHARD IRONS, and a number of other Latin American countries are rallying to Venezuela’s defence too

INDIGENOUS SUPPORT: Supporters of Bolivia’s former preside

Features / 3 August 2024

Coup theatrics and constitutional crisis in Bolivia

3 August 2024

From dubious military interventions to electoral court manoeuvring, Luis Arce’s government faces accusations of undermining democracy, while Evo Morales and his indigenous base fight for political legitimacy, writes CINDY FORSTER

Former President Evo Morales speaks during a press conferenc

World / 1 July 2024

Rift between Bolivia's left widens as Morales joins accusation that Arce faked last week's coup attempt

1 July 2024

An armored vehicle and military police form outside the gove

Opinion / 29 June 2024

The context of the Bolivian coup attempt

29 June 2024

Indigenous rights activist MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE gives her thoughts on the dramatic events in La Paz earlier this week which saw a thwarted attempt to overthrow President Arce

Bolivian President Luis Arce speaks during a press conferenc

World / 28 June 2024

Bolivia's President lambasts accusations of ‘self-coup’ as lies

28 June 2024

Bolivian President Luis Arce raises a clenched fist surround

World / 27 June 2024

Protesters rally in Bolivia after thwarted military coup

27 June 2024

RECALCITRANT CONSERVATIVE ELITES: Supporters of opposition p

Book Review / 29 January 2024

What is to be done?

29 January 2024

GAVIN O’TOOLE surveys the literature that provides compelling analysis of resistance to neoliberal hegemony

School lesson in Challa, a village on Isla del Sol, on the b

Book Review / 25 January 2024

Lessons in decolonisation

25 January 2024

Education is key to Indigenous progress in Bolivia, and the racist, US-backed white elite cannot turn the tide, writes GAVIN O’TOOLE

Protesters march to the Education Ministry in La Paz, Bolivi

Features / 24 March 2023

Indigenous Bolivian women are organising against the right

24 March 2023

Despite splits in the MAS-IPSP movement and attacks on its famous former leader Evo Morales, MIRIAM AMANCAY COLQUE reports that the strong ‘Bartolinas’ element remains resolute and dedicated ahead of its national congress