2021 in Bolivia
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National government
- President: Luis Arce (MAS-IPSP)
- Vice President: David Choquehuanca (MAS-IPSP)
- President of the Chamber of Senators: Andrónico Rodríguez (MAS-IPSP)
- President of the Chamber of Deputies: Freddy Mamani Laura (MAS-IPSP)
- Assembly: 3rd
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Events
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia
- 28 January – María Teresa Mercado, Mexican ambassador who was declared persona non grata during the 2019–2020 Mexico–Bolivia diplomatic crisis, is reappointed ambassador at the request of the government of President Luis Arce.[1]
- 31 January – The doctors′ union pushes for new lockdown as hospitals approach saturation. An average of one health worker dies every day. The total number of COVID-19 cases approaches 210,000 as the first 20,000 doses of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine arrive.[2]
- 7 February – Environmental authorities investigate the deaths of 35 Andean condors, which is an endangered species.[3]
- 18 February – Health workers announce a general strike from 18 to 28 February against the Ley de Emergencia Sanitaria (Emergency Health Law).[4]
- 2 March – Twenty people are killed and 25 others injured in a bus accident in Colomi, Cochabamba Department.[5]
- 3 March – Six people are killed when a railing collapses and they fall four floors 16.7 m (55 ft) during a student protest at the Universidad Pública de El Alto (UPEA). Three of the organizers of the event are arrested and charged with homicide, and eight others are sought by the police.[6]
- 7 March – Regional elections are held in all nine Departments of Bolivia for governors, mayors, councillors, and departmental assemblies.[7]
- 12 March – The government orders the arrest of former president Jeanine Áñez (2019–2020) and members of her government for terrorism, sedition, and conspiracy.[8]
- April (date unknown) – Members of Evo Morales′s personal bodyguard attended a rally in Plaza San Francisco dressed in uniforms belonging to the army of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.[9]
- 12 June – COVID-19: Marcel Ebrad Mexican Foreign Minister, announced on May 12 that Mexico will donate 400,000 doses of Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Belize, Bolivia, and Paraguay.[10]
- 19 November – Edgar Pary is appointed Minister for Education.[11]
