WASHINGTON (AP) — Actor Sean Penn is urging the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman jailed there since 2011.

VILLA TUNARI, Bolivia (AP) — Since taking office seven years ago, Bolivian President Evo Morales has tried to persuade the world that he has no tolerance for cocaine and that his country's thousands of acres of coca plants are dedicated to uses such as fighting off fatigue and even in whipping up wholesome treats such as sweet breads and coca puff snacks.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales acted on a longtime threat Wednesday and expelled the U.S. Agency for International Development for allegedly seeking to undermine Bolivia's leftist government, and he harangued Washington's top diplomat for calling the Western Hemisphere the "backyard" of the U.S.