Ally claims former Mas president ‘illegally kidnapped’ and suggests arrest linked to fund for Indigenous Bolivians Bolivia’s former president Luis Arce was reportedly detained and taken to police headquarters on Wednesday. His former presidency minister, María Nela Prada Tejada, posted a video on social media saying she had received information from “unofficial sources” that Arce … Read more
Mr. Paz won the presidential election after promising gradual economic reforms, though many voters seemed more drawn to his divisive running mate.
Sunday’s election marked the first time since 2005 that no candidate from Evo Morales’ Mas party was on the ballot Centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday and will be the country’s next president, marking a shift to the right after nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento … Read more
End of almost two decades of leftist rule could revive ‘war on drugs’ in change of approach to coca cultivation Bolivians 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 the rule of the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo … Read more
Long criminalized as the raw material for cocaine, coca is woven into Bolivian life. The government is lobbying the U.N. to ease international restrictions.