Tag: Bolivia

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  Primary ballot results indicate Bolivians have turned their backs on Morales

  

  Most Bolivians who voted in Sunday's election to choose the country's top judges cast invalid ballots in what would be a stinging rebuke for President Evo Morales, according to unofficial partial results.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 08:22 UTC

  Indigenous Bolivians retake protest march against Brazil financed reservation road

  

  Hundreds of indigenous people protesting the construction of a road in Bolivia's Amazon basin region are again marching toward the capital, La Paz, their leaders said.

• Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 06:16 UTC

  Bolivian will resume month-long protests against a road in the Amazon

  

  Bolivian demonstrators opposed to the construction of a road in the Amazon vowed on Wednesday to resume a month-long protest march that has become a major challenge to leftist President Evo Morales.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 02:34 UTC

  Bolivia’s Interior minister steps down and controversial jungle road is suspended

  

  Bolivia's Interior minister and his Deputy resigned Tuesday after mounting recriminations over a violent police crackdown on marchers opposed to a jungle highway that they say would despoil an indigenous preserve.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2011 - 01:17 UTC

  Bolivian Indians defending their lands expose divisions in Morales government

  

  Bolivia's Defence minister resigned on Monday to protest a police crackdown and arrests on anti-highway demonstrators which according to unconfirmed reports also caused the death of a baby and several disappeared.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 21:23 UTC

  Bolivia former anti-drugs chief sentenced in Miami to 14 years for trafficking

  

  A US federal judge in Miami on Friday sentenced the Bolivian former anti-drugs chief to 14 years prison on drug trafficking charges, court sources said. General Rene Sanabria, who was President Evo Morales's top anti-drug official 2007-2008, was arrested in Panama last February and extradited to Miami to face the charges.

• Monday, September 19th 2011 - 22:07 UTC

  Bolivian president blasts the UN and the “Insecurity Council” on Libya

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales blasted United Nations and the Security Council for having approved military actions against Libya, an issue which he promised to consider when he addresses the General Assembly in New Your.

• Thursday, July 28th 2011 - 06:15 UTC

  UK to cooperate with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking

  

  The British government has announced a new co-operation deal with Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking. During a two-day visit to Bolivia, Britain's Minister for Latin America, Jeremy Browne, said the Serious Organised Crime Agency in London will join forces with the counter-narcotics police in La Paz.

• Thursday, July 14th 2011 - 07:22 UTC

  Bolivia gets involved in Chile/Peru ongoing maritime dispute

  

  International relations between Chile and Bolivia are tense and could worsen, considering the impact of a Monday press release from Bolivia’s Ministry of Foreign Relations.

• Friday, July 8th 2011 - 05:55 UTC

  Unmanned aircraft patrol Bolivia/Brazil border to control drugs and smuggling

  

  Four Brazilian unmanned aircraft guided by remote control, Drones, will begin operating in August along the Bolivian border announced Felipe Caceres, Bolivian Social Defence Deputy Minister.