2025 in Bolivia

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The following is a chronology of notable events from the year 2025 in Bolivia .

Incumbents

National government

• President: Luis Arce (MAS, until 8 November); Rodrigo Paz (PDC, since 8 November)
• Vice President: David Choquehuanca (MAS, until 8 November); Edmand Lara (PDC, since 8 November)
• President of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice: Ricardo Torres
• President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal: Oscar Hassenteufel
• President of the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal: Paul Franco
• President of the Senate: Andrónico Rodríguez (MAS, until 6 November); Diego Ávila (since 6 November)
• President of the Chamber of Deputies: Omar Yujra (MAS, until 6 November); Roberto Castro Salazar (since 6 November)
• Assembly: 3rd (until 6 November); 4th (since 6 November)

Events

January

• 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]
• 10 April – Gazprom withdraws from the Azero gas exploration project in the Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz Departments due to failure to find viable natural gas deposits. ^[11]

May

• 3 May – Andrónico Rodríguez officially announces his candidacy for the Presidency of Bolivia for the Popular Alliance. ^[12]
• 14 May – President Luis Arce announces his withdrawal from seeking a second presidential term in the 2025 Bolivian general election. ^[13]
• 16 May – Marcos Roberto de Almeida, a leader of the Brazilian criminal group Primeiro Comando da Capital, is arrested in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. ^[14]

June

• 12 June – Five people are killed nationwide during protests by supporters of Evo Morales. ^[15]

August

• 6 August – Bicentennial of Bolivia ^[16]
• 17 August – 2025 Bolivian general election (first round): No candidate wins a majority in the presidential election, with right-wing candidates Senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former president Jorge Quiroga entering into a runoff. ^[17]
• 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]
• 26 August – A judge orders the release of opposition politicians Luis Fernando Camacho and Marco Antonio Pumari, who were imprisoned since 2021 on charges of sedition against the government of Evo Morales in the 2019 Bolivian general election. ^[18]

September

• 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]

October

• 19 October – 2025 Bolivian general election (second round): Rodrigo Paz Pereira is elected president with 54.5% of the vote. ^[22]

November

• 5 November – The Supreme Tribunal of Justice overturns the conviction of former president Jeanine Añez for the ouster of his predecessor, Evo Morales, in 2019. ^[23]
• 8 November – Rodrigo Paz Pereira is inaugurated as president. ^[24]

December

• 1 December – Bolivia grants visa-free entry for up to 90 days for citizens of the United States, Israel, South Korea and South Africa. ^[25]
• 9 December – Bolivia restores diplomatic relations with Israel for the first time since 2023. ^[26]
• 10 December – Former president Luis Arce is arrested as part of a corruption investigation involving his tenure as economy minister during the presidency of Evo Morales. ^[27]
• 19 December – A strike is held by public transportation workers in La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra in protest against the government's order to increase fuel prices by 100%. ^[28]

Arts and entertainment

• List of Bolivian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Bolivia

Source: ^[29]

• 1 January – New Year holidays
• 22 January – Plurinational State Day
• 3–4 March – Carnival
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 19 June – Corpus Christi
• 21 June – Aymara New Year
• 6 August – National Day
• 2 November – All Souls' Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day

Deaths

• 26 May: Alberto Luis Aguilar, 74, politician, deputy (2002–2006).
• 26 June: Ocasional Talento, 29, rapper. ^[30]
• 1 September: Percy Fernández, 86, engineer and politician, mayor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (1990–1995, 2005–2020) and senator (1989). ^[31]

References

1. "Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Morales in sex abuse case". AP News. 18 January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
2. "Bus Crash In Southern Bolivia Leaves 19 Dead". Barron's. 26 January 2025. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
3. "Bus crash in Bolivia kills over 30 people". VOA. 17 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
4. "Bolivia inaugurates steel plant built with Chinese loan". France 24. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
5. "At least 37 people killed and 39 wounded as two buses collide in Bolivia". Al Jazeera. 1 March 2025. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
6. "At least 31 die in Bolivia after truck rams into bus". Reuters. 3 March 2025. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
7. "Bus crash in Bolivia leaves at least 13 dead, 20 injured". Japan Today. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
8. "Bolivia declares state of emergency to combat floods". France 24. 27 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
9. Machiaco, Monica; Villegas, Alexander (26 March 2025). "Bolivia declares emergency after floods kill over 50". Reuters. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
10. "An explosion at a standoff between rival gold miners in Bolivia kills at least 5 people". AP News. 4 April 2025. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
11. "Gazprom Abandons Bolivia's Azero Project After 16 Years of Unfulfilled Promises". The Moscow Times. 11 April 2025. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
12. ""Acepto este mandato popular": Andrónico anuncia su candidatura presidencial". Correo del Sur. Retrieved 7 May 2025.
13. "Presidente boliviano Luis Arce anuncia que no buscará la reelección en comicios de agosto". AP News (in Spanish). 14 May 2025. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
14. "A leader of the largest crime organization in Brazil arrested in Bolivia, authorities say". AP News. 18 May 2025. Retrieved 18 May 2025.
15. "Bolivia police officer blown up by pro-Morales demonstrators". RTL. 13 June 2025. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
16. "Bolivia lanzará hoy cruzada hacia el Bicentenario de 2025". Agencia Boliviana de Información. 31 August 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
17. "Two decades of leftwing dominance end in Bolivia as rightwingers head to election runoff". The Guardian. 18 August 2025.
18. "Bolivian court orders the release of a prominent right-wing opposition leader". AP News. 27 August 2025.
19. "Bolivia sentences priests for concealing decades of child sex abuse". CTV News. 2 September 2025.
20. "US deports Bolivia's ex-interior minister to face charges for corruption and protester killings". AP News. 4 September 2025.
21. "Former interior minister arrested upon arrival in Bolivia after deportation from US". AP News. 5 September 2025.
22. "Rodrigo Paz wins presidential runoff, becoming Bolivia's first conservative leader in decades". AP News . 20 October 2025. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
23. "Bolivia top court orders release of former interim President Jeanine Anez". Al Jazeera . 6 November 2025. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
24. "Rodrigo Paz sworn in as Bolivia's new president, ending 20 years of one-party rule". AP News . 9 November 2025. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
25. "Bolivia eases visa requirements for US and Israeli travelers". AP News . 2 December 2025. Retrieved 2 December 2025.
26. "Bolivia and Israel restore ties severed over the war in Gaza". AP News . 10 December 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
27. "Former Bolivian President Arce arrested in corruption investigation a month after leaving office". AP News . 11 December 2025. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
28. "Bolivia's largest cities brought to standstill by transportation strike over fuel price hike". AP News. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
29. "Bolivia Public Holidays 2025". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
30. "Luto en el rap boliviano: Fallece Hiro Ishida, conocido como "Ocasional Talento"". Correo del Sur (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 June 2025.
31. María Silvia Trigo (2 September 2025). "Bolivia: Murió Percy Fernández, el seis veces alcalde y "constructor" de Santa Cruz de la Sierra". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 3 September 2025.

External links

• Online calendar
• Media related to 2025 in Bolivia at Wikimedia Commons