Tag: Evo Morales

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 21:23 UTC

  Bolivia former anti-drugs chief sentenced in Miami to 14 years for trafficking

  

  A US federal judge in Miami on Friday sentenced the Bolivian former anti-drugs chief to 14 years prison on drug trafficking charges, court sources said. General Rene Sanabria, who was President Evo Morales's top anti-drug official 2007-2008, was arrested in Panama last February and extradited to Miami to face the charges.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Bolivian president blasts the UN and the “Insecurity Council” on Libya

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales blasted United Nations and the Security Council for having approved military actions against Libya, an issue which he promised to consider when he addresses the General Assembly in New Your.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2011 - 05:38 UTC

  Bolivia apologizes to Argentine Jewish community for inviting Iranian official

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales apologized to the Argentine Jewish community for having received on an official visit the Iranian Defence minister Ahmad Vahido, who is wanted by the Argentine justice system for his alleged involvement in the 1994 anti-Semite attack in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, June 24th 2011 - 10:45 UTC

  Chilean officials fear Bolivia’s car amnesty program will encourage more thefts

  

  Bolivia’s government estimates that 85,000 cars will benefit from its new amnesty program that allows undocumented vehicles to register without prior paperwork. Chileans are not pleased about the path to immunity.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 23:47 UTC

  Humala invites Morales to consider the re-unification of Peru and Bolivia

  

  Peruvian president elect Ollanta Humala invited his Bolivian peer Evo Morales to consider bilateral integration, in which both countries would unite into a confederation as happened between 1836 and 1839.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 16:49 UTC

  Bolivia legalizes 76.000 cars smuggled or stolen from neighbouring countries

  

  Owners of 70.000 cars that were smuggled into Bolivia, most of them stolen in neighbouring countries have presented their cases in the Customs office taking advantage of an amnesty to legalize their situation decreed by the administration of President Evo Morales.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 07:52 UTC

  Andean Aymará people celebrate the coming of New Year 5519

  

  Accompanied by Andean highlands rituals in the citadel of Tiwanacu, to the north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz the indigenous Aymará will celebrate on Tuesday the coming of the Aymará New Year, 5519.

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 02:08 UTC

  France’s Total makes mega find that could boost Bolivia’s gas reserves by a third

  

  The French energy giant Total and its Argentine partner, Tecpetrol, announced the discovery of a major natural gas find in Aquio in southeast Bolivia.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 05:47 UTC

  Controversy in Bolivia about the true volume of proven natural gas reserves

  

  Bolivia has fallen from second to sixth place in the ranking of largest holder of proven natural gas reserves in South America, with Peru behind Venezuela as the two leading countries, admitted a Bolivian Hydrocarbons Association, or CBH, report.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 20:14 UTC

  Bolivia considering international court to claim coastline lost to Chile

  

  Bolivia is prepared to take Chile to the International court of The Hague over its claim to a section of Pacific coast that it lost in a war more than 130 years ago, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday.