Tag: Bolivia

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 16:39 UTC

  Angry Bolivians demonstrate against Evo's candidacy

  

  Demonstrators marched in most Bolivian big cities Thursday to complain against the Electoral High Court (TSE)'s decision to allow incumbent President Evo Morales and Vice-president Álvaro García Linera to seek re-election despite the country's Constitution and what the people voted for in the February 21, 2016 referendum.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2018 - 10:21 UTC

  Bolivia's electoral court allows Evo to seek reelection despite 21F referendum

  

  Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) Tuesday ruled by 3 votes to 2 that incumbent President Evo Morales and Vice-president Álvaro García Linera were allowed to run at the Movement to Socialism (MAS)'s primary elections to be held on January 27, 2019, where candidates for December's general elections are to be picked.

• Wednesday, November 28th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Former indigenous Bolivian VP to run next year, Bolsonaro style

  

  Former Bolivian Vicepresident Víctor Hugo Cárdenas aims at becoming his country's Jair Bolsonaro after picking a pro-life evangelical pastor as his running mate for the 2019 presidential campaign.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 10:10 UTC

  Nobody hurt as Peruvian airliner crash-lands at La Paz

  

  A Peruvian Airlines Boeing 737-500 registered OB-2041P, coming from Cuzco, crash-landed Thursday morning at La Paz's El Alto airport after problems with its undercarriage, it was reported.

• Friday, November 9th 2018 - 18:40 UTC

  “Bolivianisation” of economy brings “shortage” of foreign currency - big business for black market

  

  Evo Morales' government pushing to expand the “bolivianisation” of the country's economy has resulted in a “shortage” of foreign currency - particularly of US dollars - and to a subsequent growth of the exchange black market, it as repirted.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Bolivia delivering smaller volumes of gas to Argentina than set forth in the contract

  

  Bolivia's Hydrocarbons Minister Luis Alberto Sánchez Friday admitted that gas deliveries to Argentina are kept at an average of 10 million cubic metres per day (MMm3d), far below the 17.2 MMm3d agreed upon in the contract

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 14:00 UTC

  All set for Montevideo to become Bolivia's access to the Atlantic Ocean

  

  Two riverboat shipping companies are interested in carrying cargo from Bolivia through the Paraná-Paraguay waterway to the port of Montevideo, Uruguay's National Ports Administration (ANP) president, Alberto Díaz, said Wednesday.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 17:14 UTC

  Bolivia's YPFB must be more competitive to negotiate gas with Brazil

  

  Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) needs to lay out a more competitive plan in terms of prices and delivery methods if it is to negotiate the sale of gas to private Brazilian companies in an adverse political context, according to former minister and hydrocarbons specialist Álvaro Ríos.

• Sunday, October 28th 2018 - 19:25 UTC

  Argentina seeks extension on due Bolivian gas bills

  

  Argentina's cooking gas company Integración Energética Argentina S.A. (formerly Enarsa) has asked Bolivia's Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) for an extension to pay up the bills for the past two months plus interests due since 2007, it was reported.

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Human rights violations and environmental disasters: What leaves the Chinese investment in Latin America

  

  Chinese companies present a pattern of violations of human and environmental rights in Latin America, according to a report revealed by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).