Sources: Reuters
Citizens in Bolivia head to the polls to elect their new president. This is the first time elections are held since the 2019 Bolivian political crisis which saw Evo Morales resigning from power and Jeanine Áñez temporarily taking power. The two main candidates are Luis Arce, representing Morales's party Movement for Socialism, and Carlos Mesa, representing the centrist Revolutionary Left Front. 2020-10-18
Bolivia withdraws its recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as an independent nation, and cuts ties with the ruling Polisario Front. 2020-01-20
People in Bolivia head to the polls for the latest general election. 2019-10-20
Brazilian police detain fugitive Italian former left-wing guerrilla and convicted murderer Cesare Battisti, as he was attempting to flee across the border into Bolivia to avoid extradition back to Italy and facing his life sentence prison term for four murders in the 1970s. 2017-10-4
A six-seat Cessna 206 crashes into a market in the Beni Department of northeastern Bolivia, killing all four aboard the plane and injuring three others. (Another report states seven were killed with 15 injured). The plane was flying from Santa Ana del Yacuma to departmental capital Trinidad. 2016-03-13
According to exit polls, Bolivian voters reject a constitutional amendment that would have permitted President Evo Morales to stand for a fourth term in office. His current term expires in 2020. 2016-02-21
Evo Morales, president of Bolivia is re-elected for a third 5 year term. 2014-10-13
The government of Bolivia annuls a new coca production law which cut the number of leaves growers could sell following widespread protests. 2010-10-11
A Bolivian-flagged all-female international aid ship bound for Gaza is delayed as Cyprus bans it from passing, with Israel's Ehud Barak calling on France and the United States to prevent it from sailing because, he says, it is "a needless provocation". 2010-08-22