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At least 16 people are killed and 14 others are injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger bus on a highway between Patacamaya, Bolivia, and Tambo Quemado, Chile.
2024-07-20

A judge in Bolivia rules that opposition figure Luis Fernando Camacho must remain in prison ahead of his trial. Camacho was arrested in December on charges of terrorism.
2023-01-19

Four people are killed and fifty others are injured after a tear gas grenade is set off causing a human stampede at a public university in Potosí, Bolivia.
2022-05-9

Three ministers resign from Bolivia's interim government. One of them, Economic Minister Oscar Ortiz, stated his resignation was in protest of President Jeanine Áñez's decision to sell shares in the state-run electricity company ELFEC close to the upcoming general election.
2020-09-28

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

China successfully launches the Bolivian Túpac Katari from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2013-12-20

Bolivian President Evo Morales abandons an event in the south of the country after crowds booed him and threw dynamite in a protest over rising food prices.
2011-02-11

Customs officials in Hong Kong seize a haul of cocaine worth US$33.4m bound for China, originating from Bolivia.
2011-01-20

Mexico states that it has the support of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, the Federated States of Micronesia, Panama, Senegal, Turkey, and Uruguay in pursuing its case against Arizona's immigration law.
2010-07-21