17 January – A court in Tarija orders the arrest of former president Evo Morales for the statutory rape of a 16-year old girl in 2016.[1]
26 January – A bus overturns in Potosi Department, killing 19 people and injuring nine others.[2]
February
17 February – A bus falls into a precipice in Yocalla Municipality, killing 31 people and injuring 14 others.[3]
24 February – The Mutun steel plant megaproject is inaugurated in Puerto Suarez.[4]
March
1 March – Two buses collide near Uyuni, killing 37 people and injuring 39 others.[5]
3 March – A bus is hit by a truck and falls off a ravine in Lenas, Potosí Department, killing 31 people and injuring 22 others.[6]
12 March – A bus crashes into a rock and veers off a road in Potosí Department, killing 13 people and injuring 20 others.[7]
26 March – A nationwide state of emergency is declared by President Luis Arce due to floods that have left 51 people dead since November 2024 and affected 380,000 families.[8][9]
April
3 April – Five people are killed in an explosion that occurs between a dispute among groups of gold miners at the Yani mine near Sorata.[10]
25 August – A judge orders the annulment of the trial of former president Jeanine Añez for the killing of demonstrators during the 2019 Bolivian protests, saying that she is entitled to a special judicial process for former heads of state handled by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly rather than the regular courts.[18]
2 September – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: A court sentences two Spanish Jesuit priests to one year imprisonment for covering up 85 cases of child sex abuse by a deceased colleague from 1972 to 2000, in Bolivia’s first successful criminal prosecution against high-ranking Jesuits implicated in concealing abuse cases.[19]
3 September – The United States deports former interior minister Arturo Murillo to Bolivia, where he is wanted on multiple charges including illegally importing weapons to crimes against humanity for overseeing the crackdown on the 2019 Bolivian protests.[20] He is placed under arrest upon arrival in Santa Cruz Department the next day and transported to La Paz.[21]
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