Tag: Bolivia

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 07:48 UTC

  Evo to attend Bolsonaro's inauguration in Brasilia Jan. 1

  

  Bolivia's President Evo Morales will attend the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, on January 1 in Brasilia, Foreign Minister Diego Pary announced Monday.

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Evo compares himself with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales Thursday downplayed criticism against him being allowed to seek yet another reelection despite a constitutional ban and the “nay” victory at the February 21, 2016 referendum with which he tried to circumvent it by saying it would be as if stars Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo could not play for their national football teams.

• Thursday, December 13th 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Bolivia, Germany agree to join efforts in extracting lithium from Uyuni

  

  Germany and Bolivia will join forces for the extraction of lithium, as Europe's largest economy moves to secure supplies for battery-powered vehicles, which are believed to be looming over, the German government announced Wednesday.

• 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.