Former interim President Jeanine Áñez is arrested by police and is accused of participating in an alleged coup d'état against ousted President Evo Morales in November 2019. Before being arrested, Áñez denounced the arrest and stated that the "persecution had begun". 2021-03-13
Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) spokesperson Sebastian Michel announces that Bolivia's President-elect Luis Arce was attacked with dynamite while he was in a meeting at the party's headquarters in La Paz. No injuries were reported. 2020-11-5
The general election is postponed until October 18 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, which has infected more than 64,000 people, and killed more than 2,300. This is the second time the Interim Government has delayed the elections since the 2019 Bolivian political crisis late last year that forced the resignation of former president Evo Morales. 2020-07-23
Bolivia's legislative assembly approves the annulment of the October general election and the holding of new elections. Ex-president Evo Morales is barred from participating. 2019-11-24
Thousands of Bolivian coca farmers came out in protest in favour of Evo Morales and called for the resignation of Añez as Acting President. 2019-11-18
At least eight people were killed and dozens injured in Sacaba after security forces fired on supporters of ousted president Evo Morales. 2019-11-16
Bolivia's exiled former president Evo Morales rejects the presidency of opposition senator Jeanine Áñez, but police bar lawmakers from his party from entering the legislature to undo it. 2019-11-13
Buildings are set alight in La Paz overnight in apparent retaliatory attacks after Evo Morales resigned under pressure from anger over his disputed re-election. 2019-11-11
Two men are killed in a town in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, during protests and riots over the disputed general election on 20 October. 2019-10-31
Evo Morales accuses opposition politicians of plotting a coup d'etat with foreign powers. 2019-10-23