Tag: Bolivia

• Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Bolivia wants better gas deal with Brazil

  

  Bolivia's Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy Franklin Molina said the agreement with Brazil for the sale of cooking gas signed during the arguably illegitimate administration of Janine Áñez was detrimental to his country and will now seek to reach a new, more favorable deal.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:48 UTC

  Strong quake felt in Peru, Chile and Bolivia

  

  A strong earthquake rocked Chile, Perú, and Bolivia Thursday morning. Authorities in the three countries are still to release detailed reports on the aftermath of the event.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Bolivia diverts LNG to Argentina and leaves Brazil 7 million cm short per day

  

  Bolivia is diverting natural gas to Argentina, and unexpectedly has reduced the supply to Petrobras by 30% this month, catching the state-owned company off guard. As a result, Petrobras experienced a loss of more or less than 7 million cubic meters of gas per day. YPFB, the Bolivian state company, had been supplying Petrobras with approximately 20 million cubic meters per day.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 03:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro angry at YPFB for selling Argentina the gas that was for Brazil

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro complained that Bolivia's state-owned oil company Yacimientos Petróliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) funneled 30% of the gas that was to be sold to Brazil and sent it to Argentina as a part of an “orchestrated plan” against him and added Petrobras was behind it.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Defense ministers to create “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group”

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana Monday welcomed his Bolivian counterpart Edmundo Novillo Aguilar in Buenos Aires. During the meeting, an agreement to create the so-called “Argentine-Bolivian Working Group” was signed.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Never-graduating student leader arrested in Bolivia for embezzlement

  

  A 52-year-old Bolivian student leader who has spent the last 33 years of his life unsuccessfully pursuing a law degree has been arrested over fudgy dealings as president of the Bolivian University Confederation (CUB).

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Three arrested in connection with grenade attack at Bolivian university

  

  Bolivian authorities confirmed later Monday they had arrested three people in connection with the explosion of a gas grenade at the Tomás Frías University in Potosí, which resulted in the deaths of four students who were attending an assembly in a closed room.

• Monday, May 9th 2022 - 19:48 UTC

  Grenade attack kills 4, injures dozens at Bolivian university

  

  An attack with a gas grenade has left at least 4 people dead Monday and dozens injured at a University in the Bolivian city of Potosí, it was reported. The explosion caused a human avalanche while a student assembly was taking place at the Universidad Autónoma Tomas Frías de Potosí.

• Thursday, April 21st 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Bolivia's judiciary under the spotlight following death of jailed indigenous leader

  

  Human Rights Watch has described Bolivia as one of the grossest examples of lack of judiciary independence following the death in jail of Marco Antonio Aramayo, a former administrator of a national indigenous fund.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Boric hopes relations with Bolivia will improve after Silala lawsuit

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Tuesday said he hoped his country's relations with Bolivia will improve once the trial over the use of the waters of the Silala river before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ends.