Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Bolivia’s Evo Morales said Saturday they hope their countries are on the road to repairing badly strained relations.

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday rejected requests from the governments of Ireland, Croatia and Hungary seeking information about the deaths of three of their citizens whom Bolivia accuses of plotting to assassinate Morales.

Hungary’s government said Tuesday there is no credible evidence so far that a group made up of Hungarians and other Europeans plotted to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales.

Bolivia’s leftist president was headed to the airport Sunday when Barack Obama gave him what he requested the day before: public repudiation of an alleged attempt on his life.

Bolivia’s leader claimed Saturday that Washington continues to conspire against him _ despite President Barack Obama’s pledge of a new era of mutual respect toward Latin America.

Bolivia’s leader says Washington continues to conspire against him _ despite U.S. President Barack Obama’s pledge of a new era of mutual respect toward Latin America.

Cocaine production is on the rise in Bolivia, with Colombian and Mexican cartels hiring intermediaries to process the locally made coca paste there rather than exporting it, says Bolivia’s top anti-drug officer.

Cocaine production is on the rise in Bolivia, with Colombian and Mexican cartels hiring intermediaries to process the locally made coca paste there rather than exporting it, says Bolivia’s top anti-drug officer.

Bolivian officials were investigating Friday who financed a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and what an international group of alleged mercenaries _ including two fighters from the Balkan wars _ were doing in Bolivia.

Bolivian police foiled an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales, killing three men in a 30-minute gunbattle with a mysterious group that included suspects from Hungary, Ireland and possibly Croatia, government officials said Thursday.