2021 in Bolivia

Events in the year 2021 in Bolivia.

Incumbents

National government

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.
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.
7 February – Environmental authorities investigate the deaths of 35 Andean condors, which is an endangered species.
18 February – Health workers announce a general strike from 18 to 28 February against the Ley de Emergencia Sanitaria.
2 March – Twenty people are killed and 25 others injured in a bus accident in Colomi, Cochabamba Department.
3 March – Six people are killed when a railing collapses and they fall four floors during a student protest at the Universidad Pública de El Alto. Three of the organizers of the event are arrested and charged with homicide, and eight others are sought by the police.
7 March – Regional elections are held in all nine Departments of Bolivia for governors, mayors, councillors, and departmental assemblies.
12 March – The government orders the arrest of former president Jeanine Áñez and members of her government for terrorism, sedition, and conspiracy.
April – 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.
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.
19 November – Edgar Pary is appointed Minister for Education.

Deaths

January

12 January – Osvaldo Peredo, revolutionary leader
19 January – Felipe "El Mallku" Quispe, Quechua leader and politician
28 January – Gil Imaná, muralist and painter

May

30 May – Luisa Molina, folk singer

June

7 June – Jaime Junaro, singer

August

4 August – Moisés Torres, journalist, professor and politician, deputy

September

24 September – Pablo Ramos, economist

December

26 December – Agustín Saavedra Weise, diplomat and writer, president of the Central Bank and Foreign Minister of Bolivia