2018 in Bolivia

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References

  1. "Bolivia asistirá a Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno" [Bolivia will attend the Winter Olympic Games]. www.elpaisonline.com/ (in Spanish). Boquerón Multimedia. 18 January 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. "Segunda explosión en Oruro fue un atentado, dicen las autoridades de Bolivia". CNN en Español . 14 February 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. "Qualified NOC's to the 3rd Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires - 2018" (PDF). FEI . 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  4. Muere la historiadora boliviana Teresa Gisbert, madre de Carlos Mesa (in Spanish)
  5. "Ex vicepresidente Julio Garrett muere en Sucre a los 92 años de edad". Correo del Sur . 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  6. "Fallece la cineasta cochabambina Julia Vargas Weise" [Julia Vargas Weise, the Filmmaker from Cochabamba, Passes Away]. El Deber (in Spanish). 2 April 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  7. Sam Roberts (2 May 2018). "Luis Garcia Meza, Bolivian dictator jailed for Genocide, Dies at 88". New York Times. Retrieved 29 May 2022.