News - BOL
4 articles tagged BOL, newest first
2026-08-25
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│ Bolivia's Paz taps deputy to lead economy │
│ after minister's ousting │
│ large - Reuters - wire/independent [BOL] │
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│ President Paz fired economy minister │
│ Espinoza after a legislative censure on Aug │
│ 25 and named a deputy to replace him, amid │
│ unrest over IMF-linked market reforms. │
│ Losing the economy portfolio to a censure │
│ vote mid-reform is coalition fragility at │
│ the exact point the programme needs │
│ continuity. Corroborated by AP and TeleSUR. │
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│ https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/bolivi │
│ a-s-paz-taps-deputy-to-lead-economy-after-m │
│ inister-s-ousting/ar-AA2aUQos │
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2026-06-21
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│ Bolivian authorities say no active │
│ blockades after state of emergency decree │
│ large - Al Jazeera - tilt/independent [BOL] │
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│ After ~46 days of unrest, a June 19 partial │
│ government-COB agreement plus a 90-day │
│ state of emergency cleared all blockades by │
│ June 23. A pause, not a settlement. Bolivia │
│ political_stability near -9 -> -6; │
│ civil_liberties held at -4 (emergency │
│ powers now invoked). │
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│ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/21/bo │
│ livian-authorities-say-no-active-blockades- │
│ after-state-of-emergency-decree │
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2026-06-08
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│ 'No Evidence': Bolivia's Paz Blames │
│ 'Narco-Terrorists' for Protests and Signs │
│ Law Granting Emergency Powers │
│ medium - Common Dreams - │
│ unknown/independent [BOL] │
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│ President Rodrigo Paz signed a law on June │
│ 8 enabling a future state of emergency with │
│ military action and suspension of │
│ constitutional rights against weeks of │
│ fuel- and dollar-crisis protests, framing │
│ demonstrators as narco-terrorists without │
│ presenting evidence, raising │
│ repression-risk concerns even though the │
│ powers were not yet invoked. │
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│ https://www.commondreams.org/news/bolivia-s │
│ tate-of-emergency │
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2026-06-03
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│ Bolivian ministers resign as weeks of │
│ protests rock Paz's government │
│ medium - Euronews - unknown/independent │
│ [BOL] │
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│ Bolivia's defense and education ministers │
│ resigned on June 3 as roughly 100 │
│ nationwide road blockades, doubled in two │
│ weeks, paralyzed the country over │
│ fuel-subsidy cuts and a fuel-import │
│ scandal; President Paz called it a breaking │
│ point and did not rule out a state of │
│ emergency or military deployment. │
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│ https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/03/bolivia │
│ n-ministers-resign-as-weeks-of-protests-aga │
│ inst-economic-crisis-rock-government │
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