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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 15:58 UTC

Tag: Bolivia

  • Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:27 UTC

    Bolivian court bans Evo from 2025 candidacy

    Bolivian court bans Evo from 2025 candidacy

    Bolivia's Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) Friday ruled that indefinite reelection is not a human right and therefore former President Evo Morales was banned from running for office in 2025. Under the TCP's new consideration, such a right can now be legally restricted, which reverses a criterion approved by this same court in 2017.

  • Thursday, December 28th 2023 - 08:05 UTC

    Bolivia declares epidemiological alert as number of Covid-19 grows

    The system must remain attentive, Minister Castro said

    Bolivian authorities Wednesday decreed an epidemiological alert in the face of an increasing number of cases of Covid-19. “It is not the first alert that it is launched,” Health Minister María Renée Castro explained. “When we have some diseases that begin to circulate we launch an alert to tell the system that it must remain attentive, so that we are all there, with all the protocols,” she added.

  • Thursday, December 14th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

    COP28 ends up in strong declaration to phase out fossil fuels

    “This is neo-colonialism called carbon colonialism,” Bolivia's Diego Pacheco warned

    Attendees at the closing plenary session of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) reached a final consensus to speed up climate action, it was announced. “It is a strengthened and balanced package,” COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber explained. The document also mentioned the gradual suppression of fossil fuels.

  • Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

    Bolivia's full Mercosur membership greenlighted

    For Brazil, Bolivia's full membership of Mercosur means cheaper energy, Senator Chico Rodrigues explained

    Brazil's Senate Tuesday greenlighted Bolivia's accession to the South American Common Market (Mercosur) as a full member of the bloc. Once President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enacts the bill, the regional alliance will once again consist of five full members -in addition to Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay- as it once happened when Venezuela was admitted but later suspended in 2017 for its undemocratic practices.

  • Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

    Paraguayan and Bolivian bananas return to Argentina

    Massa ordered the payment of bananas to be prioritized, Fanego explained

    Banana producers in Paraguay and Bolivia have agreed to resume shipments to Argentina after the outgoing administration of President Alberto Fernández authorized the use of foreign currency to pay for those imports.

  • Friday, November 10th 2023 - 11:10 UTC

    Treaty creating police force of the Americas signed

    Ameripol will be essential to fight transnational organized crime and terrorism, Rodrígues said

    A new organization for police cooperation on the American continent was agreed upon Thursday with the Treaty for the Constitution of the Police Community of America (Ameripol) which will act in line with Interpol criteria, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 10:21 UTC

    Bolivia severs diplomatic ties with Israel

    Bolivia had already broken up with Israel under Evo Morales

    Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani Machaca announced Tuesday that the South American country “condemns the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive being carried out in the Gaza Strip” and was thenceforth breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in “repudiation” of such acts. The Bolivian government made no mention of Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks.

  • Monday, October 23rd 2023 - 06:46 UTC

    Brazilian Lower House approved Bolivia's entry to Mercosur pending since 2018; nex step Senate's consent

    Bolivia’s entry into the bloc was approved by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Committee in 2018 during President Temer’s administration

    The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies – the lower house of Congress – has recently approved Bolivia’s entry into Mercosur, eight years after Bolivia applied to join the regional bloc. The request will now be evaluated by the Senate.

  • Friday, October 20th 2023 - 10:34 UTC

    Drought hitting Chaco region concerns Paraguayan authorities

    Peña said on social media that action would be taken “so that the long-awaited aqueduct becomes a reality”

    Paraguayan authorities expressed their concern Thursday given the dramatic drought causing social, economic, and environmental devastation in the region of Chaco, which is also affecting parts of neighboring Bolivia, it was reported.

  • Monday, October 9th 2023 - 08:17 UTC

    Evo in favor of Hamas' actions in Israel

    Morales criticized “the invasionist and expansionist policy of Israel”

    Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma celebrated Hamas' attacks on Israel and criticized a statement from his country's Foreign Ministry condemning the bloodshed in the Middle East.