After 14 years of presence in the country, and despite all the existing campaigns and having a network, the chain was forced to close the eight restaurants that remained open in the three main cities: La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de the Sierra.
It is a question of the first Latin-American country that will remain without any McDonald’s, and the first country in the world where the company has to close because it persists in having their numbers in the red for over a decade. Read Article
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Presidents Humala and Morales of Peru and Bolivia respectively have met in Cusco to sign the Acta de Cusco in which both countries pledge to develop the sectors in their country most in need. One of the topics discussed in the article from rpp.com.pe, is the focus on quinoa as a good source of nutrition […]
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Dogs “hounds” that uses the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) to combat capital flight are trained in Canine Training Unit is located in Bahia Blanca. It is the only training ground for some 300 beagles AFIP and Customs is in the country and work in an area of Pronsato at 1,400. “The dogs are […]
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An Aerolineas Argentinas plane Friday blowout suffered one of its front wheels, trying to take off from the airport of Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia, without causing injury, said an airport official. Read Article
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There is presence of the Russian mafia in Santa Cruz. This was stated yesterday by the head of the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC), Antonio Ovando, to take for the murder of Igor clarified Gorelkin Perez and submit to the alleged perpetrators of violent act attributed to an adjustment related to accounts drug trafficking. […]
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Departmental Health Service (Headquarters) reported dengue death of a woman of 54 years in the town of Yapacaní. The program manager Dengue Venues, said the patient came in with all the symptoms of the disease, “there was an outbreak of dengue in the province Ichilo, specifically in the Chapare Yapacaní and Cochabamba area. In Yapacaní […]
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Bolivia and the United States decided to extend until December 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to protect the cultural heritage of the country. According to a press release from the Department of State United States, published on its website, the memorandum will enable to maintain the restrictions “on imports of archaeological material from pre-Columbian cultures […]
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The governor of Potosi, Felix Gonzalez, said yesterday it was discovered that more water wetlands of the northern region of his department is brought to Chile. “Several are already identifying and on that basis we will make known to the international press how they carry our water. Read Article
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The Foreign Minister of Colombia, Maria Angela Holguin said yesterday that there are drug cartels seeking to enter Bolivia. Although not detailed names, emphasized that these cartels have “enormous” economic resources. The Colombian Foreign Minister arrived in the country on Monday to meet with similar Bolivian, David Choquehuanca, to address various issues on the bilateral […]
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Rocío Aguilar Carla (19 years) younger than he was in the second semester of International Relations at the University Gabriel René Moreno was killed by a bullet, when three men got out of a vehicle to take your wallet, this fact Vallegrande occurred in the neighborhood of the Radial 17 and a half. The local […]
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The 2011 comes to an end and what he leaves the forest sector are only negative figures. In the case of exports, this year has seen 25 to $ 30 million less and envisions that by 2012 is an overview of uncertainty due to the changes brought the new Law on Forests. Read Article
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With a vision of identity development with representatives of 57 municipalities in Bolivia, Chile and Peru pose a strategic alliance to strengthen border integration as a trinational mechanism to improve the levels of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of people living Aymara territories. The information corresponds to Miguel Flores Recovery Project Coordinator, Development and […]
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The representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs (UNODC), César Guedes said Thursday there is no evidence that Mexican and Colombian cartels in Bolivia, while the Interior Minister, Wilfredo Chavez, said the executive know an alleged report of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on the subject. “So far there were no clear evidence […]
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For provision of an enlarged Union of Workers of the National Social Security Fund (Casegural) was installed on Thursday in La Paz a picket of hunger strike, involving three leaders, demanding the payment of additional increase of 1%, reported union sources. “Workers Casegural La Paz assume the measure of the hunger strike by leaders: Mario […]
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Japanese immigrants in Bolivia on Thursday celebrated the birthday of Emperor Akihito in a ceremony attended by executive authorities, diplomats and representatives of international organizations. The Japanese ambassador to Bolivia, Toshio Watanabe, hosted the celebration of 78 anniversary of Akihito, considered a symbol of that country. “His Majesty Emperor Akihito symbol of the Japanese nation […]
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Special Force to Fight (FELCN) seized at least 17 kilograms of cocaine in a laboratory crystallization of cocaine base found in the community of Morocoro (jurisdiction of Cabezas), a distance of about 122 kilometers south of the city of Santa Cruz. No one was arrested. Read Article
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Senior Chinese and Bolivian military officials pledged here Monday to strengthen bilateral military ties. The pledge came during the meeting between Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Xu Caihou and Armando Pacheco Gutierrez, the visiting Commander of the Armed Forces of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. Read Article
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The Bolivian government announced that discounted profits for phone companies to fund a plan that service access in poor and remote areas of the country, but some operators challenged the decision, reports said Wednesday. The government will deduct 2% of the profits of the telephone in 2012 to fund the National Social Inclusion Telecommunications under […]
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A coordination meeting between national, departmental and municipal allowed to anticipate the actions of prevention and immediate response to any emergency or potential disaster caused by the phenomenon of La Niña in the department of Cochabamba in the remainder of this year and 2012. The most vulnerable areas are located on the Tropic of Cochabamba […]
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Some 6,500 Brazilian soldiers and ships supported by aircraft launched a major operation against illegal drug trafficking, weapons and goods at the borders with Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay, an official confirmed Thursday. Read Article
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An unprecedented event occurred in Valley City, a tornado swept through yesterday with everything in its path in Pucara, an area south of Fence, and left considerable material damage. At about 17:15 yesterday, a tornado struck the area neighboring the Pucara, located in the south of fences, afraid only managed to lock themselves in their […]
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The shipment was made in the Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz. Bolivia exported to Venezuela yesterday 60 tonnes of textiles and clothing of five domestic companies, amounting to $ 2.2 million. “Exports are sent to Venezuela represents over 2.2 million dollars in clothing. The data that we are strong. Venezuela is rapidly outstripping imports […]
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Elite troops of the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (UMOPAR) yesterday took control of a narcolaboratorio was found a day earlier in the Isiboro Secure park in Beni territory, after 20 hours of combat with Colombian drug traffickers. There they found the body of a sniper. Drug Trafficking. Take narcolaboratorio obtained yesterday in Santa Rosa del […]
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During the first half of this year reported at least 277 cases of feminicio in Bolivia, said the Deputy Minister for Equal Opportunities, Ministry of Justice. Deputy Minister of Equal Opportunities, Costs Gardy, acknowledged that there is increased violence against women and to look for measures to counter this. That’s why we decided to perform […]
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The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, said the strategy of integrating South American country’s road, vital to economic development. In an act for the delivery of the stretch between the towns of Tupiza and Cotagaita, in the southern department of Potosi, Morales said that the greatest satisfaction is the joy of farmers and children of […]
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Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies, 1530-1900. THREE VOLUME SET [Hardcover] – Recorded interview with editor Dr. Joanne Pillsbury (Recording Time- 01:31:16 ) Recorded October 28, 2011. Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Press (2008) – Published in Collaboration with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. PURCHASE BOOK:Guide to […]
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The second phase of the investigation of white Ivory operating a deposit of 14 th Street neighborhood of La Colorada was surprising to the agents of the Special Force to Fight (FELCN), because they found cocaine hidden in export through tubes difficult to penetrate steel. A week ago in the same place, where a giant […]
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The direct outputs of travel from the bus station in La Paz to Potosi, Sucre and Tarija are suspended due to blockade of Challapata community members who star as part of the pressure measurements of 48-hour general strike called by the committee Oruro. Lieutenant Colonel Agustin Moreno, Traffic Unit of the terminal of La Paz, […]
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Bolivians living in Spain who want to return to Bolivia may benefit from a voluntary return program in exchange for receiving the total unemployment benefits that have accrued while working, according to the website of Spanish newspaper DNA. On Tuesday, Bolivia and Spain signed the agreement Ibero-American Multilateral Social Security program that guarantees to return. […]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, said today the unconditional solidarity of Cuba, despite being the country suffering a criminal U.S. blockade for more than five decades. In an act of recognition to the work of the island’s ambassador in La Paz, Rafael Dausa, who concludes his mission here, the officer acknowledged that with the support of […]
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Aborted highway project through TIPNIS, now Brazil’s government hopes the highway linking the departments of Cochabamba and Beni is realized at the mercy of an alternative route that satisfies all stakeholders. The construction of the road, valued three years ago at $ 415 million was awarded, precisely in 2008, Brazil’s OAS on the basis of […]
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Bolivia President Moves to Reroute TIPNIS Road Indigenous Bolivians from the National Park and Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS) won a major concession from President Evo Morales today. The President announced he would change the text of a proposed law so it prohibits construction of a controversial government-backed road planned through the TIPNIS. The new […]
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Government authorities yesterday dismissed the presence in the country of international drug cartels hours after the death of a police Umopar in a clash with drug traffickers in a cocaine lab found in the Tipnis and after the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency U.S.) issued a report of its intelligence agencies that Mexican cartels have extended […]
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Tarija .- The underground brick factories that exist in the neighborhood of this city Germain Busch throw the worthless products in the ravines of Gallinazo and Sagredo, causing pollution in the waters of two tributaries that flow into the river Guadalquivir.The two streams have a foul smell because they also receive household sewage waste, which […]
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The head of the Dengue, program dependent Departmental Health Service (Headquarters), Virgilio Prieto, expresses its concern at the high rate of larval presence in some districts of the city, especially downtown. “We have left the dry season and larval infestation is triggered, we do not know what will happen as we enter the rainy season. […]
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The crime was committed in a house in the area of Miraflores. The victim, LAV, 25, prefers not to publish even the street where the incident occurred for fear that criminals return for revenge. Neither filed a complaint in anti-crime force because he believes that would be a waste of time. Read Article
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Amazon Indians who walked 600 km over 65 days, to protest the construction of a road through a nature reserve on Wednesday triumphantly entered La Paz to demand the government of President Evo Morales to cancel the project. The column, consisting of nearly two thousand Indians came out in August from the Amazon and in […]
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Formed a band dedicated to newborns buy Bolivian and Peruvian women without resources to deliver adoption in urban centers in the country. They used as a photo album catalog. The investigation is being presided by Judge Norberto Oyarbide. A baby-smuggling ring was broken in the last hours by La Federal Police, through multiple raids in […]
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It’s hard to know what the formula for an efficient and speedy justice. For the last representative in Cochabamba Judicial Council, which in 2012 will be the Judicial Council, Jhonny Butrón Ledezma have to go back in history to find the reasons that led to the administration of justice today is challenged and tested ways […]
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Spanish police arrested a young man who had come to Madrid from Bolivia in your body carrying 11 bags of cocaine mixed with oil, said on Sunday the Ministry of Interior. The woman, identified as BR Nely Cinda 24, was detained along with Carlos SC 34, who is charged in addition to an alleged illegal […]
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The other Bolivia, multinational, commitment today to strengthen their institutions with a new administration of justice after popular elections, the day before, marked by the participation and new attacks opponents. Although the official results will be announced on 29 October, the opponents to the government and its media recording forward most votes null and blank, […]
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After more than 6 days of walking, a march by representatives of various social organizations, peasant origin, settlers, coca farmers, miners and other sectors, arrived Wednesday to the city of La Paz to support the process of change, democracy , judicial elections and the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, among other […]
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The Regional Health Bureau Tacna is in permanent epidemiological alert to the 540 cases of H1N1 influenza positives detected in eight departments of Bolivia, so that the executive director of Epidemiology, Edgar Tejada Vasquez announced that carry out coordination with the Regional and Arequipa , Puno and Moquegua, as well as health services Arica (Chile), […]
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Crimes and Division Summaries of Argentina made a raid for trafficking and labor exploitation in a textile factory that operated in two homes in the neighborhood of Floresta, where they found 21 people working in subhuman conditions. The shop owners were arrested and Bolivian nationality are investigated by the justice department. Read Article
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President Evo Morales said Tuesday that with the purchase of six K-8 aircraft made in China for the fight against drug trafficking and other tasks, a technological revolution began in the Force Air, which celebrated the 88th anniversary of foundation. In a ceremony held in the Air Brigade of the city of El Alto, the […]
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Troops of the Task Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (FELCN) discovered in recent days new forms of drug delivery attempts at international airports in the city of El Alto and Santa Cruz. On October 3, police found drugs at the airport in El Alto 3 kilos 322 grams of cocaine hidden neatly in the middle […]
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The Ministry of Health reported 428 infected with influenza A (H1N1) and about two thousand suspected cases in six of the nine departments. Have so far died of the flu a woman of 59 years in Tarija, a boy of 64 years in Potosi and two others in Santa Cruz, a 12-year old girl and […]
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The Bolivian region of Santa Cruz today suspended for 10 days and educational activities due to a red alert as a result of H1N1 influenza peak, reported the news agency Prensa Latina. Oscar Urenda, secretary of the governor, said that the preventative measure response to a rapid increase in the number of cases of influenza, […]
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Bolivian natives angry over plans to build a highway through an Amazon nature preserve resumed their protest march Saturday after a violent police crackdown a week ago, a top demo leader said. The march began at daybreak in the town of Quiquibey, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) northeast of La Paz, protest leader Rafael Quispe […]
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Chacodiapordia.com reported members of the Bolivian Mennonites informed Argentine authorities they were deceived by three scammers when they purchased lands which belonged to the state in Chaco Province, Argentina. After paying 250 thousand dollars for 28 thousand hectares, the victims were unable to locate the thieves from Ciudad Termal. The suspects were detained after police […]
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The defendant would have used for these acts alleged aid agency the woman in the city of La Paz. After research conducted since 2009, Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) stopped the day before the Valencia Janeth Oropeza lawyer who would be responsible for a company where print media offered by families or groups of […]
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Bolivia’s president late Monday suspended a planned Amazon highway that has sparked clashes between police and Indians who say the road would despoil a nature preserve that is home to thousands of natives. President Evo Morales also distanced himself from the decision to break up a protest march Sunday. His announcement came hours after police […]
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In the past year, the complaints of farmers living in the areas of oil exploration and production in Colombia has been increasing. They do not want their territory is invaded by oil infrastructure. The protests come at a worse time for the Colombian government. State coffers need a rapid injection of income, so they expected […]
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A former top Bolivian anti-drug official has been sentenced to 14 years in a US prison in a cocaine trafficking case that proved a major embarrassment for Bolivian president Evo Morales. Retired General Rene Sanabria, a former head of Bolivia’s leading counter-narcotics unit, pleaded guilty in June to charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into […]
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The Government announced that it will buy gold to diversify reserves BCB “against the weak dollar and the euro,” will depend on the international price. In addition, the Executive estimates that each year only buy two tons of the seven that are produced in the country.The Finance Minister Luis Arce said yesterday that the two […]
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China Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, arrived Wednesday evening at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where on Thursday will meet with President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, as part of an agenda marked by trade and the integration of both countries. Hui Liangyu arrived at Viru Viru airport to the local 22h00 (2h00 GMT on […]
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Indians oppose the construction of a route segment that the Bolivian government funded building projects in Brazil. Aparentemente, la carretera partirá en dos el Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS), que ocupa un millón de hectáreas ricas en flora y fauna y habitadas por varias etnias amazónicas. Apparently, the road split in two Isiboro Secure National […]
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The financial crisis in developed countries does affect the field of gold jewelry in Bolivia. Production declined and exports fell by 48%. A cooperative miners are not shining the metal as they liked and the state still does not buy the mineral.Low domestic production of raw materials, markets and consumers without tariff preferences, national and […]
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An aircraft of the private airlines on Wednesday Aerocom remained missing for more than 15 hours, according to the latest press release issued by the company in Santa Cruz. The air search tasks erupted after noon from the city of Trinidad, northeast Amazon, 800 km from La Paz and Santa Cruz 600, which will operate […]
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The Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents identified six children as victims of a pedophile of 22 who was arrested yesterday in an educational unit of the district’s Tusequis. The man was trying to be lured to two girls for child pornography. Read Article
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Argentina’s government of Bolivia asked to expedite the return of more than 1,700 stolen vehicles in that country and that were detected from a list of cars entered as Bolivian waiting smuggling legalization. Bolivian Customs reported that more than 7,000 stolen vehicles were detected in neighboring countries from the list of 128,000 in the process […]
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The bodies of a man and woman recently found in northeastern Bolivia may be the remains of two French tourists who disappeared in the region last year, a senior Bolivian official said Saturday. Forensic experts were studying the remains in order “to determine, through DNA analysis, whether or not they correspond to the two missing […]
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Report a nexus of narco network at airports Facilitators. Univision Miami, says police operating in airports allow the drug to exit aircraft from Bolivia to America.The U.S. network Univision and opposition MPs claim that in some airports nationwide carrier networks exist that facilitate the activity of drug trafficking in Bolivia.From a report by the U.S. […]
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Bolivian Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, has appealed for people to take into account the concerns of the TIPNIS indigenous communities who are currently marching on the capital La Paz to protest against government plans to erase more than 2,300 square miles of rain forest over two decades to […]
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Bolivia’s leftist government plans to raise mining royalties to take advantage of high global metals prices and to bolster the state’s role in the industry, Deputy Mining Minister Hector Cordova told Reuters. Read Article
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Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says United States officials misrepresented him in a diplomatic cable regarding his portrayal of Bolivia’s President Evo Morales. Gonsalves told a news conference Monday that the Americans were wrong when, in a separate cable, they said that Iranian money influenced how Kingstown voted on Iranian issues at the United Nations. […]
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La Paz’s Plaza de San Pedro looks like any other city plaza in South America. A large church looms over the tree-lined courtyard, there are a few shops and restaurants, and shoe-shine boys hang around for customers as the traffic bustles by. Yet this is one of the most bizarre tourist attractions in the world. […]
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A French couple seeking heir son and his partner, who disappeared almost a year ago in a small town in northern Bolivia, reported slow progress in the investigations. “We still hope to find Jeremiah and Fannie and know the truth. We can not return to France without knowing anything, we’re desperate, now I have little […]
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Global popular fashion chain Zara has been accused of having sweatshop-like conditions at some of the factories in South American it subcontracts from. The Brazilian Ministry of Labor is investigating the Spain-based brand due to the discovery of a contractor in São Paulo employing predominantly Bolivian immigrants working under unsafe conditions. According to the parent […]
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Officials with YPFB said 19 August in a news release that they met with Vietnamese counterparts and agreed to a yearlong agreement for Petrovietnam to look for gas in the Isipote, Yoai and Algarrobilla regions.Once the study is complete, the two companies will consider negotiations for service work, YPFB said. Read Article
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Bolivia’s official state news agency ABI reported that Saturday’s flooding by the Tipuani River has unexpectedly swept away several gold mining cooperatives in the Department of La Paz, generating US$12 million in losses. There are no human casualties in the flooding, ABI reported Monday. Read Article
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Bolivia daily natural gas production will increase by nine million cubic meters in 2012, which will help cover domestic needs and exports to Argentina and Brazil, said Carlos Villegas, president of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos, YPFB. Read Article
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Susana Banman dreads the dark. Since one terrible night in early 2009, she and her husband check the closets and lock newly installed window latches each night before going to sleep in their picturesque Mennonite community of Manitoba Colony, in the eastern lowlands of Bolivia. “Even still, I can’t sleep through the night,” says the […]
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is never shy when it comes to accusing the US of meddling in the Andean nation’s domestic affairs. This time he says the US is behind a march of more than a thousand indigenous Bolivians protesting a highway that will bisect their territory. Read Article
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The virtual shutdown of timber harvesting in the forest Guarayo, in northern Santa Cruz, has so far caused an estimated loss of $ 1.2 million for the community Guarayo estimated by the timber industry. Guarayo receive about $ 15 per cubic meter of wood extracted, which involves approximately $ 5.2 million a year for the […]
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A man linked to the Italian Mafia was arrested at his home in the La Matanza district of greater Buenos Aires over the weekend after a four-month-long investigation, according to elcomercial.com.ar. Walfre Dante Zubieta Bilbao, 49, is accused of leading an organization that trafficked Bolivian cocaine through Argentina and to Italy and other European countries. […]
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According to ElUniverso.com seven press associations from South American countries stand with the Ecuadorian press organization, El Universo, condemning the attack on freedom of expression by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. On the 20th of July an Ecuadorian court found El Universo opinion editor and three directors guilty of slander against Correa, sentencing them to three […]
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According to BolPress.com the defender for the Ombudsman Rolando Villena says at least 1,299 Bolivian minors were reported missing between 2008 and 2010, detailed in the report by the Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC). The Network of Attention to Human Trade and Trafficking (RATT) of Person of MERCOSUR and other government and private institutions […]
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The head of the National Information Office of the UN in Bolivia, Robert Brockmann, has denied Sunday a report published in various media referred to Bolivia is the largest producer of marijuana.Previously, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has rejected an alleged statement by a report in the Bolivian press. Read Article
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Around 2,000 donkeys are used as pack animals carrying illegal timber by smugglers in Bolivia reported El Nacional. The animals were being exploited carrying around 50 kilos each and the estimated value of the timber is 200 bolivianos each. The Supervision and Social Control Authority of Forestry and Land (ABT) have so far managed to […]
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According to ElComercio.pe agents of the Peruvian National Police seized a Bolivian truck traveling on the Desaguadero-Moquegua road, license plate 1800AXA, in which agents found $237,000 with adhesions of cocaine. Puno police officials report that the semi-trailer was traveling from La Paz, Bolivia to Matarani, Peru transporting soybean meal. Officials say police found a bag […]
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ElComercio.pe reports that the governments of Peru, Brazil and Chile have found 5,000 stolen vehicles belonging to the three countries in Bolivia. An amnesty decree, signed by Bolivian President Evo Morales, concerning about 130,000 undocumented automobiles helped the three governments locate the stolen property. Officials say that joint operations by all four countries also helped […]
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The focus of the anti-drug movement in the Southern Cone has traditionally been on Bolivian and northern Argentine citizens used as “mules” who transport drugs around the world, according to lavoz.com.ar. But now the drug cartels have employed, for much cheaper, European “mules” posing as tourists who transport the drugs from Bolivia to Argentina, and […]
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Although snowfall trapped various families and tourists in the southwest region of Potosí, members of the Bolivian army confirmed the rescue of 34 native families reported Prensa Latina. Efforts to reach the hotel Ojo de Perdiz, still continue as the climate improves. Rescue units were also able to save 10 Indians and two Swiss tourists, […]
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Segip, the general service in charge of the administration of identity cards in Bolivia, has increased their security after reports of cloned cards, falsified birth dates, and name changes disclosed Opinion.com.bo. Many changes were made to the system to insure transparency, which caused the process of receiving an id card to take up to four […]
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•Tourists from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela may enter Colombia for the World Cup U-20 beginning July 29 without passports, reported Terra.com. •According to the director of the Administrative Security Department, people from these nine countries need only submit their respective national identity cards. •Proexport, which promotes tourism in Colombia, […]
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Chief of Bolivia’s anti-drug police force, Colonel Gonzalo Quezada, announced today that 543 kilos of cocaine were seized in 2 operations in the last 48 hours, per abc.com.py. The first operation took place in the Santa Cruz region and involved a plane that was carrying 363 kilos of cocaine to Brazil. Gunfire was exchanged, but […]
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According to ElComercio.pe eight countries, including Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela will begin a joint study of water resources and deforestation in the Amazon region next August, announces the Treaty Organization of the Amazonian Region (ACTO). Officials say this is the first regional project of deforestation that can quantify and compare […]
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According to LaPrensa.com.bo Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera began Operation Together July 1st, where Chile’s navel fleet participated in military exercises with the United States, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Piñera says that the joint exercise will allow the Chilean Navy to show its force and preparation for military situations and defend the country of Chile. Reportedly, […]
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•According to Colombian investigators, there are about 3,000 Colombians in Bolivia participating in the Martín Llanos narcotics trafficking group. •A report from eju.tv reveals that within the last 5 years, Colombians have been participating in this group which operates in the capital of the Santa Cruz department, Bolivia. •Currently, 32 Colombian citizens stand accused of […]
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According to RPP.com.pe the Bolivian Government today, July 1st revealed that one of the five Peruvians accused of trafficking cocaine is a member of the Peruvian Shining Path. On Tuesday, June 28th police captured one Bolivian and five Peruvians suspected of trafficking cocaine, officials report. Three of the detainees posed as agents of the Bolivian […]
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Argentine president Cristina Kirchner commented on the economic status of the country, stating that if reelected for another term, she will ensure industry growth and Argentina will remain a model of democratized growth around the world, according to infobae.com. The remarks were made at the Casa Rosada yesterday afternoon during a ceremony held to officially […]
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Allegations of mistreatment of detained 14 soldiers in Bolivia in the Chilean territory, which made the government’s defense minister altioplánico, Cecilia Chacón, were denied today by the regional ombudsman of Tarapaca, Arturo Zegarra. Read Article
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The Chilean government announced Sunday it will expel 14 armed Bolivian military officials detained Friday for illegally entering Chilean territory. The weapons they had carried have been confiscated and will not be returned, according to Manuel Guerra, district attorney for the border region of Tarapaca. Read Article
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Twelve policemen and a cooperative miner are missing as a result of a dynamite explosion during a violent confrontation between uniformed and cooperative employees of a mine during early hours of Tuesday in the mining center of Sayaquira, Inquisivi province of La Paz. Read Article
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llegal coca cultivation in Bolivia increased from 9700 hectares to 11 hectares. Coca has been planted in the Chapare, a stronghold of President Evo Morales election forward by a member of the UN Office, a body which will report annually on 24 June. The former senator of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Gastón Cornejo, regretted […]
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A 60-year-old Bolivian woman was arrested yesterday in her home in the town of Ingeniero Budge in the Lomas de Zamora district of Gran Buenos Aires on drug trafficking charges. Police also confiscated 143 bars of chalk cocaine and money, according to la-razon.com. The defendant had traveled to Bolivia in secret to buy drugs and […]
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Bolivia’s leftist president, Evo Morales, vowed Monday to increase state control over the economy and strengthen political power for indigenous groups, a day after exit polls showed that he was reelected in a landslide. Read Article
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A leading champion of the battle against genetically modified food is switching sides. The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales confirms it has sent Congress a measure to ease the use of genetically modified foods. Read Article
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Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga is an HIV ambassador for Tearfund and campaigner for the rights of people living with HIV, particularly women. Ross Quiroga discovered she was living with HIV 10 years ago, when she was 22, and helped to set up the Bolivian network of people living with HIV. It successfully lobbied the government […]
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