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Bolivia President Luis Arce Faces Coup Attempt Amid Political Tensions
Bolivian President Luis Arce, a mild-mannered and bespectacled former economy minister, faced down a coup attempt on Wednesday, as the armed forces withdrew after occupying the central square in La Paz and entering the presidential palace.
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Bolivian Ex President Evo Morales Barred From Running For 2025 Re-Election
Bolivia's Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019.
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Bolivia President Evo Morales Resigns After Losing Backing Of Security Forces
Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing.
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Bolivia Opens $7 Million Museum Honouring President Morales
Bolivia on Thursday opened a $7 million museum dedicated to President Evo Morales and indigenous peoples in Mr Morales's birthplace of Orinoca high up in the deserts of the Bolivian antiplano.
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Morales Facing Defeat In Key Bolivia Vote: Partial Results
Partial results Monday indicated Bolivian President Evo Morales faced defeat in a referendum on seeking a fourth term in power, but he sat tight pending results from his rural strongholds.
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Bolivians Limit Leftist President's Record Rule: Reports
Bolivians on Sunday rejected leftist President Evo Morales' bid to seek a fourth term and potentially extend his presidency until 2025, local media projected.
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Bolivia's Evo Morales Marks 10 Years In Office
Bolivian President Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous head of state, marked a record-setting 10 years in office Thursday with an ancient ceremonial rite in the pre-Incan city of Tiahuanaco.
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Bolivian 'Communist Crucifix' Gift to Pope Francis Surprises Vatican
The Vatican acknowledged it was taken by surprise to discover that a wooden hammer and sickle sculpture with a figure of a crucified Christ gifted to the Pope in Bolivia was not commissioned by leftist president Evo Morales but designed by a priest killed in 1980.
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Bolivia's President Morales Declares Victory in Election
Bolivian President Evo Morales declared a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, hailing it as a triumph for socialist reforms that have cut poverty and vastly expanded the state's role in the booming economy.
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Bolivia's Morales Elected to Third Term: Exit Polls
Bolivian President Evo Morales was elected to a third term on Sunday with more than 60 percent of the vote, avoiding a runoff against a divided opposition, exit polls said.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales Set for Landslide Victory in Elections
Bolivia's indigenous President Evo Morales was widely expected to win a third term in power in elections Sunday, along with a legislative majority that would permit him to push through his leftist reforms.
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Bolivian President Vows to Expand Coca Crops
Bolivian President Evo Morales has been re-elected head of the country's largest union of coca growers and promises to expand crops if he wins a third term as the nation's leader.
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Spain apologizes to Bolivia for presidential plane delay
Spain apologized on Monday for its part in the events that led Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane to be delayed earlier this month during an international search for US fugitive Edward Snowden.
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Bolivia's Morales offers asylum to US leaker Edward Snowden
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday said he would grant asylum, if asked, to fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the third leftist Latin American leader in two days to make such an offer.
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Nicaragua, Venezuela offer asylum to Edward Snowden
The presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered on Friday to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one day after leftist South American leaders gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane over Europe amid reports that the American was aboard.
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Bolivia President Luis Arce Faces Coup Attempt Amid Political Tensions
Bolivian President Luis Arce, a mild-mannered and bespectacled former economy minister, faced down a coup attempt on Wednesday, as the armed forces withdrew after occupying the central square in La Paz and entering the presidential palace.
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Bolivian Ex President Evo Morales Barred From Running For 2025 Re-Election
Bolivia's Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019.
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Bolivia President Evo Morales Resigns After Losing Backing Of Security Forces
Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing.
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Bolivia Opens $7 Million Museum Honouring President Morales
Bolivia on Thursday opened a $7 million museum dedicated to President Evo Morales and indigenous peoples in Mr Morales's birthplace of Orinoca high up in the deserts of the Bolivian antiplano.
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Morales Facing Defeat In Key Bolivia Vote: Partial Results
Partial results Monday indicated Bolivian President Evo Morales faced defeat in a referendum on seeking a fourth term in power, but he sat tight pending results from his rural strongholds.
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Bolivians Limit Leftist President's Record Rule: Reports
Bolivians on Sunday rejected leftist President Evo Morales' bid to seek a fourth term and potentially extend his presidency until 2025, local media projected.
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Bolivia's Evo Morales Marks 10 Years In Office
Bolivian President Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous head of state, marked a record-setting 10 years in office Thursday with an ancient ceremonial rite in the pre-Incan city of Tiahuanaco.
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Bolivian 'Communist Crucifix' Gift to Pope Francis Surprises Vatican
The Vatican acknowledged it was taken by surprise to discover that a wooden hammer and sickle sculpture with a figure of a crucified Christ gifted to the Pope in Bolivia was not commissioned by leftist president Evo Morales but designed by a priest killed in 1980.
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Bolivia's President Morales Declares Victory in Election
Bolivian President Evo Morales declared a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, hailing it as a triumph for socialist reforms that have cut poverty and vastly expanded the state's role in the booming economy.
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Bolivia's Morales Elected to Third Term: Exit Polls
Bolivian President Evo Morales was elected to a third term on Sunday with more than 60 percent of the vote, avoiding a runoff against a divided opposition, exit polls said.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales Set for Landslide Victory in Elections
Bolivia's indigenous President Evo Morales was widely expected to win a third term in power in elections Sunday, along with a legislative majority that would permit him to push through his leftist reforms.
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Bolivian President Vows to Expand Coca Crops
Bolivian President Evo Morales has been re-elected head of the country's largest union of coca growers and promises to expand crops if he wins a third term as the nation's leader.
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Spain apologizes to Bolivia for presidential plane delay
Spain apologized on Monday for its part in the events that led Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane to be delayed earlier this month during an international search for US fugitive Edward Snowden.
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Bolivia's Morales offers asylum to US leaker Edward Snowden
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday said he would grant asylum, if asked, to fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the third leftist Latin American leader in two days to make such an offer.
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Nicaragua, Venezuela offer asylum to Edward Snowden
The presidents of Nicaragua and Venezuela offered on Friday to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one day after leftist South American leaders gathered to denounce the rerouting of Bolivian President Evo Morales' plane over Europe amid reports that the American was aboard.
