Tag: Bolivia

• Wednesday, October 31st 2012 - 06:56 UTC

  Bolivia asks Sean Penn to help lobby in the dispute with Chile over a sea outlet

  

  Bolivia asked visiting Oscar-winner Sean Penn Tuesday to help lobby for La Paz to regain a bit of Pacific coast, and escape the ranks of landlocked states. Evo Morales, the populist president of the arid nation high in the Andes, asked the US actor to help its campaign to press Chile to overhaul treaties that ended a 19th-century war that cost Bolivia its coast and gave the land to Chile.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 19:51 UTC

  Bolivia sells 500m dollars bond with 4.875% yield; first time in ninety years

  

  Bolivia returned on Monday to global credit markets for the first time in almost a century with the launch of 500 million worth of 10-year bonds, reflecting investors' confidence.

• Tuesday, September 18th 2012 - 14:49 UTC

  Evo’s Bolivia: far from Seventh Heaven

  

  By Jimmy Burns(*) - The colonial church of San Francisco in La Paz, founded in 1548, is a beautifully textured mixture of Christian imagery and Indian mythology. The facade and ceiling mixes in saints, Christs and Virgins with tropical birds, reptiles, and sweet corn.

• Saturday, September 8th 2012 - 05:26 UTC

  Bolivia will formally request Mercosur full membership in 2013

  

  Bolivia will begin the coming year formal talks for full membership of Mercosur, for which it has the support from Uruguay, said diplomatic sources from both countries, Bolivian Deputy Foreign minister Juan Carlos Alurralde met with his Uruguayan counterpart Roberto Conde in the framework of the “Bolivia-Uruguay coordination and consultation mechanism” sixth meeting in La Paz.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:37 UTC

  Brazil begins major military exercise to test security along its southern borders

  

  Brazilian Armed Forces began this week a major deployment along the borders of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia involving 9.000 troops from the three services with the purpose of testing border security against smugglers mainly of arms and drugs and organized crime, said the Ministry of Defence.

• Friday, August 3rd 2012 - 07:10 UTC

  Bolivia seizes silver and indium mine operated by Canadian firm

  

  Confirming the growing trend in several South American countries, Bolivia expropriated a silver and indium mine operated by a local unit of Canadian firm South American Silver, a move criticized by Ottawa and likely to scare off foreign investors.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:46 UTC

  The next December solstice celebration in Bolivia will have Coca Cola after all

  

  Bolivia said on Wednesday that statements from Foreign minister David Choquehuanca about “the end of Coca Cola” were taken out of context adding there are no plans to expulse the US Company from the country, as published in the local media.

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Bolivia raids the offices of India’s Jindal alleging “breach of contract”

  

  Bolivian prosecutors with the support from police and military forces on Friday raided the offices of India’s Jindal in La Paz as part of an investigation for an alleged “breach of contract” following the company’s confirmation it was abandoning the huge iron-ore mining project of El Mutún.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:23 UTC

  Bolivia agrees to sell more gas to Argentina under an ‘interruptible’ contract

  

  Argentina and Bolivia signed on Wednesday new agreements to increase the sale of Bolivian natural gas to its southern neighbour but the controversial issue of a price review went unnoticed.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Indian company scraps largest iron-steel development plan in Bolivia history

  

  India's Jindal Steel and Power scrapped plans Tuesday to invest 2.1 billion dollars in a Bolivian mining project and blamed the country’s “non-friendly business attitude” for the deal's collapse.