Tag: Bolivia

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Bolivia: UN Rapporteur says Áñez's conviction tinted with political meddling

  

  Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Diego García-Sayán has said he saw politics had meddled in the judicial ruling whereby former Bolivian interim President Janine Àñez was sentenced to ten years in jail for crimes against the Constitution.

• Monday, June 13th 2022 - 10:26 UTC

  Bolsonaro sees himself jailed after leaving office, “like Áñez”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said from Orlando in the United States that he feared he might end up like former Bolivia's Jeanine Áñez when he leaves office.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Bolivian court hands down 10-year jail sentence to former ruler Áñez

  

  Former Bolivian interim President Jeanine Áñez (2019-2020) has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crimes of breach of duties and resolutions contrary to the Constitution and laws in the so-called “Coup d'État II” case stemming from the November 2019 uprising which brought Evo Morales' rule to an end.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolivia to import diesel to relief drivers in the west

  

  Bolivia's state-run oil company YPFB will import 2.5 million liters of diesel fuel from Chile to reverse the current shortage, it was announced.

• 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).