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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Protesters streamed into Bolivia’s capital, throats hoarse from chanting and feet blistered from a week of walking along the national highway. The throngs of street vendors ...
Bolivia has been left reeling after troops, led by General Juan José Zúñiga, briefly seized the presidential palace in La Paz during an attempted coup.
Who Was the Leader of Bolivia’s Failed Coup and What Happens to Him Next? 6 minute read Bolivian police apprehend Juan José Zúñiga, former general commander of the army, in La Paz on June 26 ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia's government palace Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt, but President Luis Arce vowed to stand firm and named a new army ...
FM: Yes, the thing is that, as it happens a lot in Bolivia, [Áñez’s] was a transitional government, but first it tried to re-found neoliberalism in Bolivia.
The roots of Bolivia’s success are found in Ferrel’s home region of the Chapare, where Indigenous coca-growing women, known as “ cocaleras,” fought against the 1990s U.S.-financed war on ...
2. Use cases Boliviano: As Bolivia’s national currency, the Boliviano is used primarily for everyday transactions within the country, such as buying goods and services or paying taxes.
The country’s former President Evo Morales, a longtime leader of coca growers’ unions who famously threw the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency out of Bolivia in 2009, used his office to develop ...
Bolivia never seriously tried to abolish traditional uses of the coca leaf. Like Peru and Colombia, the other main coca-growing countries, it created broad exemptions under national law.