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‘At Dublin Airport they made me wait four hours. I was ready to cry’
- People
- September 16, 2020, 06:00
In late October 2019, protests broke out across Bolivia when thousands of people took to the streets to oppose the election of Evo Morales as presiden(...)

Escape from Peru: Within seconds, my flight jumped from €750 to €4,500
- Travel
- March 26, 2020, 15:53
Less than a year ago, Machu Picchu, the Amazonian jungle and the Bolivian salt flats seemed well out of reach for this 60-year-old. However, early ret(...)

The Irish Times view on the killing of Michael Dwyer: time for a real inquiry
- Editorial
- February 7, 2020, 00:00
The collapse earlier this week of the trial in Bolivia that grew out of the 2009 police operation that killed Irish man Michael Dwyer and two other me(...)

Welcome to my Place . . . Tenerife
- Abroad
- January 13, 2020, 07:00
Phil Crean left Dublin in 1983, spent 11 years in London and moved to Tenerife in 1994. He works as a freelance photographer and lives with his wife G(...)

Mexico grants asylum to ex-Bolivian leader Evo Morales
- World
- November 11, 2019, 19:48
Mexico granted asylum to Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales on Monday as unrest shook the South American nation, helping cement the Mexican govern(...)

Evo Morales hits out at ‘coup’ as he resigns after protests
- World
- November 11, 2019
Bolivian president Evo Morales said on Sunday he was resigning to ease violence that has gripped the South American nation since a disputed election,(...)

Bolivian president agrees to new election after audit
- World
- November 10, 2019, 17:17
Bolivian president Evo Morales agreed on Sunday to hold a new presidential election at the recommendation of the Organization of American States (OAS)(...)

Growing unrest in Bolivia as audit of disputed poll gets under way
- World
- November 5, 2019, 18:58
The political crisis sparked by last month’s presidential election in Bolivia continues to intensify even as an audit of the disputed poll by the Orga(...)

Ten years on, family of Irishman killed in Bolivia still wait for answers
- Irish News
- April 13, 2019, 06:00
When in 2015 Bolivia’s president Evo Morales became the first South American head of state to visit Ireland, he must have known the 2009 killing of Ir(...)

Caroline Dwyer awaits justice 10 years after son’s death in Bolivia
- Crime & Law
- April 13, 2019, 01:00
Caroline Dwyer was going through her emails the other day, and she found the last one her son, Michael, ever sent her. It was on Mother’s Day, March 2(...)