Tag: Bolivia

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Bolivia suspends train tests to Chile after truckers protests

  

  The tests to reactivate a cargo rail line that connects the Chilean port of Arica (north) with Viacha, Bolivia (southwest), will be suspended, Bolivian authorities announced this Thursday, after several days of roadblocks by truck drivers against the initiative.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Bolivia, Mexico agree to lift mutual visa requirement for short stays

  

  The governments of Bolivia and Mexico Monday announced they had agreed to lift the mutual visa requirement for citizens of either country wishing to travel to the other for stays of up to 180 days.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Wealth tax returns twice as much as expected in Bolivia

  

  Bolivian President Luis Arce announced on Tuesday his country's tax bureau had collected twice as much as originally estimated through the “very rich tax.”

• Monday, April 26th 2021 - 08:38 UTC

  Bolivia's YPFB eyes oil income of US $ 1,900 million for this year

  

  Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) CEO Wilson Zelaya announced the state-run company projected an oil income above 1,900 million US dollars for the year 2021, which would represent a 35% growth compared to 2020.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 08:33 UTC

  Bolivia bans beef exports to guarantee domestic supply

  

  The Government of Bolivia Thursday decided to halt all beef exports to prevent international demand from leading to an increase in price domestic consumers could not afford, Minister of Rural Development and Lands, Remmy Gonzales announced. “We have already talked with the sectors and we have already taken the measures to suspend exports while the domestic market is not supplied,” he told the media.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 08:56 UTC

  Major setback for Evo's party: none of its candidates win governors' elections in Bolivia

  

  As the results of Sunday's departmental elections in Bolivia were becoming known Monday, former President Evo Morales' Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) recorded one defeat after another.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:40 UTC

  Chile has new immigration law after eight years in Congress

  

  Chile's President Sebastán Piñera Sunday signed into law the new migration law which spent eight years in Congress before being passed.

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Bolivia to seek extradition of former President Sánchez de Lozada from US

  

  Bolivia's Justice Minister Iván Lima Wednesday said his country would seek the extradition of former President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada from the United States to be held accountable for extrajudicial executions in October 2003.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  US court rules against former Bolivian President Sánchez de Losada and a close aide

  

  A Florida federal judge Tuesday upheld a decision to have former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (2002-2003) and former Minister of Defense Carlos Sánchez Berazaín pay 10 million dollars in reparations to the victims of uncontrolled state repression.

• Saturday, April 3rd 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Over 25 million cases of Covid-19 reported in Latin America, Caribbean

  

  Latin America and the Caribbean have altogether exceeded 25 million covid-19 infections amid an unprecedented advance of the pandemic which has led to the most severe restrictive measure by some countries, it was reported Friday.