LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered judges to urgently review whether three prominent right-wing leaders had been held in prison for too long without trials, threatening to reopen a tumultuous chapter in Bolivia's politics just days after a presidential election ended two decades of dominance by the governing leftist party.

Bolivia's Chief Justice Romer Saucedo gave judges 24 hours to scrutinize the length of pretrial detention in high-profile cases stemming from the crisis over the 2019 ouster of former President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Associated Press.

The order, experts say, could pave the way for the release from custody of three of Bolivia's most divisive right-wing politicians: F

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