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A Bolivian criminal court judge ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales on Friday after he failed to appear at a precautionary measures hearing in an aggravated human trafficking case. Along with the arrest order, Judge Nelson Rocabado of the Fifth Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Criminal Court in Tarija imposed national travel restrictions, [...]

Bolivia’s Constitutional Tribunal announced on Friday its ruling that all elected officials can only serve a maximum of two terms, whether continuous or discontinuous, effectively barring former President Evo Morales and others from seeking reelection. The tribunal’s ruling, which was made last week but announced on Friday, emphasized that these term limits are fundamental to [...]

Supporters of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales took more than 200 soldiers hostage on Saturday. The Bolivian Foreign Ministry reported that the activists occupied three military facilities in the region of Chapare during protests on Friday. The statement accused them of possessing weapons and ammunition. At least 30 police officers are reportedly injured, and more [...]

The national police force of Bolivia announced that they had arrested 44 protesters on Friday, after demonstrators set up more than 20 roadblocks on highways across the country to prevent the arrest of former president Evo Morales. The Bolivian police accused protestors of committing various crimes, including attacks on transportation security, usurpation of functions, criminal [...]

Bolivian authorities transferred General Juan José Zuñiga on Saturday to the maximum security El Abra prison as part of an ongoing investigation into his alleged leadership of a failed coup attempt against President Luis Arce’s government, Director of the Penitentiary System Juan Carlos Limpias told local media. Limpias said that prisoners at Chonchorro, where Zuñiga [...]

Military vehicles from Boliva breached the presidential palace on Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt. This came after many military vehicles were seen in Plaza Murillo where the government houses and presidential palace are located.  This mobilization was met with immediate backlash from the government as the country’s president, Luis Arce,  denounced the troops’ movements [...]

Protests against the recent arrest of right-wing Bolivian opposition politician and Santa Cruz governor Luis Fernando Camacho continued this week in the Santa Cruz district, stoking fears that Bolivia’s cycle of political retribution will continue. Human Rights Watch (HRW) Associate Director, Americas Division César Muñoz said on Tuesday that “The crime of terrorism has been [...]

A federal court Wednesday sentenced former Bolivian minister Arturo Murillo to 70 months in prison, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice. Murillo was convicted of corruption and conspiracy to launder bribes in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. In October 2022, Murillo pleaded guilty to accepting at [...]

Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho was sentenced Friday to four months of pretrial detention following a seven-hour court hearing on charges of terrorism. Judge Sergio Pacheco issued Camacho’s sentence, which Camacho’s communications team called “armed, dark, abusive, attacking and inconsistent.” Camacho, who is the governor of the Santa Cruz region, was arrested on 28 [...]

A Bolivian criminal court found ex-president Jeanine Anez guilty Friday of inciting a coup and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. In a statement, the Ministry of Justice and Transparency celebrated the verdict and sentencing, saying, “he Judiciary, in the exercise of its independence, issued a sentence that is framed in the principles and [...]