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Montevideo, December 19th 2024 - 16:35 UTC

Tag: Bolivia

  • Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 16:42 UTC

    Bolivia to focus on biodiesel production

    The initiative must be handled responsibly regarding its possible effects on people and the environment, Flores pointed out

    Bolivia's Minister of Rural Development and Lands, Yamil Flores, underlined Tuesday that his country would use biotechnology to produce biodiesel. He also noted that this technology, although promising, must be handled responsibly, considering its impact on people's health as well as on the environment.

  • Monday, July 29th 2024 - 07:56 UTC

    Land shipments of diesel awaited in Bolivia amid supply crisis

    Bolivia's oil company YPFB announced Sunday that with the arrival of at least 50,000 cubic meters of diesel from Brazil and Paraguay this week, the fuel shortage would be solved for the time being to meet domestic demand. The State-run organization explained that the supply problems stemmed from bad weather at the Chilean port of Arica, which prevented the unloading of fuel from four ships.

  • Wednesday, July 10th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

    Meeting between Lula and Arce signals new era of bilateral ties

    Arce told Lula that Bolivia wanted to join BRICS after entering Mercosur

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce Catacora during their encounter in Santa Cruz de la Sierra that “there is no individual way out in South America,” Agencia Brasil reported. Both leaders agreed that the bilateral meeting spelled the beginning of a “new era” in bilateral ties now that Bolivia is a full member of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). It was Lula's first trip to Bolivia during his third term in office while Arce has been to Brazil four times in the past 12 months.

  • Friday, July 5th 2024 - 19:16 UTC

    Lula visit announced to Mercosur's newest full member Bolivia

    “There are many issues that we have to take forward,” Alcón explained

    Bolivia's Deputy Communications Minister Gabriela Alcón announced Friday that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would be arriving in Santa Cruz de la Sierra next Monday for meetings with local authorities and businessmen. It will be the first visit of a foreign head of state since Bolivia's full Southern Common Market membership President Luis Arce Catacora signed into law this week.

  • Thursday, July 4th 2024 - 21:59 UTC

    Bolivia's Senate passes Mercosur accession bill

    President Luis Arce Catacora must now sign the country's accession to the Southern Common Market into law

    Bolivia's Senate passed late Wednesday the landlocked country's full Southern Common Market (Mercosur) membership which is thus up for President Luis Arce Catacora to be signed into law. The Lower House approved the initiative on June 14, which would give the head of state to participate in the July 8 Summit in Asunción from a new perspective.

  • Wednesday, July 3rd 2024 - 10:20 UTC

    Bolivia recalls ambassador from Buenos Aires

    La Paz also summoned Argentine ambassador Marcelo Massoni to express its “energetic rejection” of the Casa Rosada statements

    The Bolivian Government Tuesday summoned its ambassador from Buenos Aires for consultations following Casa Rosada's allegations that the June 26 attempted coup d'état in La Paz was staged by President Luis Arce Catacora to improve his dwindling public image.

  • Monday, July 1st 2024 - 18:20 UTC

    Bolivia says BA's remarks regarding coup were “unfriendly and reckless”

    Milei's Office said it remained calm during the “fake” uprising because it was known in Buenos Aires that it was not real

    Bolivia's Foreign Ministry Monday said that comments from the Office of Argentine President Javier Milei on the June 26 attempted coup d'état in La Paz were “unfriendly” and “reckless.” Casa Rosada had contended that the military uprising had been staged and therefore calling it a revolt was a “false denunciation.”

  • Monday, July 1st 2024 - 10:30 UTC

    Bolivian President denies self-coup allegations

    “Don't side with fascism,” Arce told Morales on social media

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora asked former head of state Evo Morales Ayma not to be gullible enough to believe the self-coup narrative allegedly promoted by fascist rightwing groups and insisted that what happened on June 26 was a failed attempt to overthrow him by force.

  • Friday, June 28th 2024 - 19:13 UTC

    Bolivian authorities arrest 21 in connection with failed coup

    Zegarra was arrested Friday after being highlighted for not having participated in the revolt

    A total of 21 people both military or civilians have been arrested so far in connection with Wednesday's failed coup d'état against the administration of President Luis Arce Catacora, Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo confirmed Friday in La Paz. “So far there is a total of 21 people apprehended in the case called failed coup d'état,” the official said.

  • Thursday, June 27th 2024 - 22:37 UTC

    OAS unanimously condemns military revolt in Bolivia

    Violent interruptions to democracies need to be “banished from our countries,” the Bolivian delegate stressed

    The Organization of American States' General Assembly in session at Asunción, Paraguay, Thursday passed a “strong condemnation” of the attempted coup d'état in Bolivia the day before. The continental body dubbed Wednesday's events in La Paz a “threat to the constitutional regime.” It was also “a flagrant insubordination to the orders publicly expressed by the constitutional president Luis Arce Catacora,” the delegates concurred unanimously.