The takeover is latest chapter in standoff between the Arce government and supporters of ex-president Evo Morales.
Regional organisations mobilised behind Bolivian government after troops and armoured vehicles gathered in the capital.
Morales criticised the removal of former President Pedro Castillo, who tried to dissolve Peru’s Congress last month.
Protesters in farming hub of Santa Cruz province block highways as calls grow for release of Luis Fernando Camacho.
Opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho to spend up to four months in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges.
![Police clash with supporters of Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of Santa Cruz, during a protest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on December 30, 2022 [Ipa Ibáñez/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AP22365056878670.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Bolivia’s census, postponed until 2024, is expected to shift legislative seats toward the growing Santa Cruz department.
Ex-President Jeanine Anez found guilty of orchestrating a coup that brought her to power in 2019.
Anez could be sentenced to 12 years in prison if she is found guilty of unconstitutionally assuming the presidency.
Protests erupt in four Bolivian cities for the release of former President Jeanine Anez.
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The former interim president is charged with terrorism, sedition and conspiracy in relation to events that began in 2019
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Conservative politician faced an arrest warrant on charges of ‘terrorism’, sedition and conspiracy.
![Anez, a former senator, took over as caretaker president after Morales left Bolivia in 2019 [File: David Mercado/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-12T190123Z_626822370_RC2V9M9F3FJQ_RTRMADP_3_BOLIVIA-POLITICS-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Bolivian prosecutors also want to arrest two men accused of helping force Evo Morales’s departure in 2019.
![Bolivia's former interim President Jeanine Anez shared a link to an arrest warrant, which included her name and several of her former Cabinet and cited allegations of terrorism and sedition [File: David Mercado/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-03-12T190123Z_626822370_RC2V9M9F3FJQ_RTRMADP_3_BOLIVIA-POLITICS.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
After a year in exile, Morales returns to a polarised Bolivia following the election victory of his left-wing party.
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Wearing colourful traditional clothing and waving the Indigenous Wiphala flag, thousands welcomed Morales with cheers.
![Former Bolivian President Evo Morales waves during a rally with supporters in Chimore, Bolivia, November 11, 2020, from where he flew into exile one year ago. Morales, the nation's first Indigenous president, returned to Bolivia on Monday and led a caravan to this coca-growing region of Cochabamba province where he began his political career, following an election that returned his party to power. [Juan Karita/AP Photo]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20316645994132.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)