New law grants president power to use military to clear roadblocks set up amid weeks of antigovernment demonstrations.

A month of heated protests calling for the centre-right president to step down have paralysed the country. Read more at ...

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz on Wednesday enacted a law restoring the executive branch's authority to deploy the military in the streets.

Led by a top general vowing to “restore democracy,” armoured vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia's government palace on Wednesday in what the president called a coup attempt — only to quickly retreat ...

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. Military forces seized control of La Paz using ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivians chanting in support of the president rallied outside the presidential palace on Thursday, denouncing a coup attempt that had threatened to pitch the long-troubled South ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. NERMEEN SHAIKH: In Bolivia, thousands filled the streets of the capital La Paz Wednesday to confront military forces who tried to carry out a ...

Bolivia has arrested more than a dozen high-ranking military and intelligence officials following a failed attempt to unseat the country’s president in a coup allegedly led by its former army chief.

(CNN) — An armed group has taken control of a military post in central Bolivia, the country’s armed forces said on Friday. According to the Bolivian military’s statement, the “irregular armed group” ...