1. Situation Update
Heavy rainfall continues to affect vast regions of Bolivia. Seven out of nine Departments have been already affected. The Government of the Department of La Paz declared red alert due to recent river floods. In the municipality of Quime, 50 houses were affected by the overflow of the Quime River. Read Article
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Bolivia will tap central-bank reserves to boost agricultural production and stockpile food, joining countries from Africa to Asia in a bid to avoid a looming global “crisis,” Finance Minister Luis Arce said. Rising food prices pushed tens of millions of people into extreme poverty last year and are reaching “dangerous levels” in some countries, World […]
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Eight out of nine regions in Bolivia are still suffering the effects of heavy rains and flooding, according to the National Meteorological and Hydrological Service. According to the service, the rains will continue in Chuquisaca and as of this Thursday, will affect Chaco Boliviano, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba Tropic. Read Article
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COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA — Dotted along every major thoroughfare, vendors set up tarps to sell their wares. When I drove by a long line of people, shopping bags in hand, I was curious what wonderful product was being offered. As I peered under the covered bed of the old truck, one man was tossed a white […]
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A wave of violent protests is shaking Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales had to abandon a public event celebrating Bolivia’s 230th anniversary of Independence after being confronted by protestors angry over food shortages and price rises. Scheduled to talk in the mining city of Oruro, he and his team had to leave the city quickly […]
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Bolivian President Evo Morales hastily left the southern mining city of Oruro on Feb. 11 after protesters angered by rising food prices and shortages jeered him and set off dynamite. Morales canceled plans to lead a march in the city commemorating an 1871 anti-colonial uprising there, and retreated back to the capital, La Paz. Read […]
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Forest product exports from Bolivia totaled $237 million in 2010, up 33% from $178.8 million in 2009, ITTO reported. Read Article
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Bolivia is buying six Chinese combat aircraft as part of its effort to correct its image as a country that isn’t doing as much as it should to cut off the narcotics trail to North America. Read Article
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The government of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo reactivated at least four abandoned military forts in the region of the Chaco Boreal border with Bolivia, the newspaper El Nuevo Herald. The acting head of the Army, General Dario Caceres, announced yesterday at a press conference that “the programs will be implemented to improve infrastructure in order […]
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Bolivia’s Aerosur plans to acquire an additional Boeing 767-200 and 737-300 this year as the carrier continues its widebody fleet expansion and narrowbody fleet renewal programmes. Read Article
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A KEY witness into events surrounding the killing of Irishman Michael Dwyer by Bolivian police has said his confession implicating Dwyer in terrorism was obtained under torture. Read Article
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At least 34 people were killed when a river in southeastern Bolivia burst its banks, sweeping away a passenger bus and a truck, authorities said Sunday. Read Article
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According to information provided by Colonel Mario Hinojosa, commander of the Police Department Potosi incident occurred at 11:30 am at the site where the Cooperative operates Imperial City. The hours following the accident, the police deployed a rescue of the bodies of the unfortunate brothers Shock Condori, whose bodies were taken to the morgue Bracamonte […]
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21 rescuers USE Peru Group General Corps of Voluntary Firefighters, who left yesterday heading to the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and are operating with their peers Bolivians in search of the workers trapped inside a collapsed building in the center of the city. Read Article
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The fiery coca growers’ union leader who rode discontent over his predecessor’s pro-business policies to Bolivia’s presidency is suddenly grappling with a sharp drop in popularity. Ironically, Evo Morales’ troubles are related to his handling of the economy. Read Article
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In Bolivia, it’s legal for children to stay with their mothers in prison until the age of 6. However, many of them stay on after that age for lack alternatives. Read Article This is an outstanding video with subtitles in English.
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Bolivia will demand the World Health Organization (WHO) to spread the results of the study on coca leaf in 1995, to give everyone a real insight into its properties. According to the research, coca leaf chewing is not harmful to human health and therefore the WHO recommended then further research to identify the properties of […]
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It’s a long way from Malibu: Bolivian artisans are dressing up a Barbie-inspired doll in clothing typical of the Andean nation’s indigenous heritage. Forget the hair always being blond, the heels high and the skirt a flirty pink. This doll’s locks are sometimes black and woven into braids, and she wears low black shoes, a […]
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All 17 ministers of Bolivian President Evo Morales’s Cabinet have stepped down in an expected move that comes as the president completes the first year of his second term. Morales has seen his popularity numbers fall from 70 percent a year ago to 36 percent this week – in part due to his now-abandoned attempt […]
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Bolivia has embarked on an international mission to try to end the ban on chewing coca leaves. But the United States plans on getting in its way. Coca has been used in the Andes for thousands of years as a mild stimulant and herbal medicine, but it is also a raw ingredient in the drug […]
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Bolivia, which is pushing for the decriminalization of the coca leaf, launched a soft drink made from the plant Tuesday, the second of its kind. The drink, called “Coca Brynco,” was launched at an official ceremony in La Paz, emphasizing support from Evo Morales’s government for the venture. Read Article
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Governments throughout Latin America are ramping up dengue prevention campaigns after 1.5 million people were infected and over 1,000 people in the region died of the disease in 2010. There have already been deaths from dengue fever this year, the most recent one in Perú, where the deaths are exceeding hospital capacity – and it […]
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According to Beni’s provincial health director, Mauricio Rousseau, of the total 1093 dengue fever cases reported in 2010, over 50 percent were discovered during December. He added that in the first half of January 2011, additional cases of dengue fever infections have been reported in the province. Most of the dengue fever cases have occurred […]
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In a series of dramatic seizures all over Bolivia, Animal Defenders International (ADI), a leading animal protection group headquartered in Los Angeles, worked with the Bolivian authorities including the DGB and Santa Cruz Governor’s Office, to remove the animals from eight different circuses spread across Bolivia. The moves were to enforce Bolivia’s Law 4040, which […]
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The flooding, mudslides and highway blockages due to intense rains spread Sunday to the Peruvian regions of Ancash, Cuzco, Huanuco and Pasco with thousands of people reported to be affected, officials said. Read Article
It’s as inhospitable as climates come for crop cultivation, the dry and rocky soils of Bolivia’s semiarid altiplain. Miguel Choque can see his breath as surveys his fields of quinoa, the Andean “supergrain.” In late March or April, the flowering plants will paint the rugged landscape yellow, green and red. Their diminutive seed, which powered […]
Unprecedented prices of food items will strongly affect the world’s poorest people, and this will raise the risk of protests, calls to ban exports, expropriation of farmlands owned by foreigners and more short-term price increases driven by investors. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said that food prices reached all-time highs […]
Bolivia is offering new perks to oil prospecting firms to speed the momentum of operations aimed at finding substantial hydrocarbon reserves. Companies that invest and succeed in finding commercially viable oil or natural gas deposits will have their cash reimbursed. Read Article
Following a wave of angry protests across the country, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales revoked a decree that lifted fuel subsidies and caused price hikes of up to 82%. In a message late Jan. 31, Morales said he had decided to rescind the decree after meeting with labor and indigenous leaders who convinced him that the […]
Bolivia has fined Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei $8 million for breach of contract, officials said. Public Works Minister Walter Delgadillo said Bolivian state telecommunications provider Entel collected on Huawei’s performance bond after the Chinese company failed to install equipment on schedule, Fides radio reported Tuesday on its web site. Read Article
Gustavo Luna, director of Inspections and Grounding under the Directorate of Migration, said in statements to Radio Fides that from January to date this year was expelled from the country more than 300 foreign nationals who were either irregularly in Bolivia by having a criminal record or not having documentation. Peruvian and Colombians were the […]
Sugar is short in Bolivia, so President Evo Morales is urging the country to look elsewhere for its sweets. Morales says the government is encouraging production of honey and stevia, and says officials will handle selling and exporting it. Read Article
An opposition party governor removed from office in Bolivia has fled the country. Read Article
The number of Bolivians living in extreme poverty dropped 10 percent in 2010, and officials envision a 21-percent cut next year. Bolivia reduced extreme poverty from 40 percent to 30 percent (this year), and we hope to reach the millennium goals,” Minister of Planning Viviana Caro told a news conference on Thursday. The millennium goals […]
Why Bolivia stood alone in opposing the Cancún climate agreementWe were accused of being obstructionist, obstinate and unrealistic. But we feel an enormous obligation to set aside diplomacy and tell the truth Diplomacy is traditionally a game of alliance and compromise. Yet in the early hours of Saturday 11 December, Bolivia found itself alone against […]
Special Force against Drug Trafficking (FELCN) destroyed 8,200 hectares of illegal plantations of coca leaf and did seize 28 tons of cocaine, according to management report presented yesterday at the central region of Cochabamba. Read Article
The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) and the Chinese Great Wall Industry Corporation signed a commercial contract for the construction and launching of the first Bolivian telecommunications satellite, which has been baptized Tupac Katari. Read Article
The government of Bolivia has passed a new pension law that reduces the retirement age for most men to 58 from 65, in stark contrast to many other countries which are seeking to hike the retirement age in order to deal with climbing life expectancy rates. Read Article
An inspection of 1.826 firms throughout Costa Rica by the Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS) – Labour Ministry – reveals that 39% of businesses do not pay minimum wages. Read Full Article