Tag: Bolivia

• Saturday, December 18th 2010 - 03:05 UTC

  Bolivia recognizes Palestine as an independent state with pre-1967 borders

  

  President Evo Morales announced on Friday that Bolivia would recognize Palestine as an independent sovereign state. The Bolivian leader made the statement during the Mercosur summit in Brazil.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2010 - 06:43 UTC

  Bolivia’s first (Chinese built) telecommunications satellite operational by 2014

  

  The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) and the Chinese Great Wall Industry Corporation signed a commercial contract for the construction and launching of the first Bolivian telecommunications satellite, which has been baptized Tupac Katari.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2010 - 08:16 UTC

  Chile outlines conditions for a possible Bolivian access to the Pacific

  

  Chile is willing to cooperate with a sea-outlet for landlocked Bolivia but will not cede sovereignty because “we will never accept something that divides the country in two”, said the Chilean Foreign Affairs minister Alfredo Moreno.

• Monday, November 22nd 2010 - 20:45 UTC

  Bolivia rejects US warning and will have dealings with whomever it wishes

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales delivered a blunt reply on Monday to visiting US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates's warning about dealings with Iran, saying Bolivia will ally with whomever it wants.

• Monday, October 25th 2010 - 02:39 UTC

  Controversy in Bolivia about the country’s proven gas reserves

  

  According to a recent audit commissioned by the Bolivian government and conducted by US-based consulting firm Ryder Scott allegedly shows that the country has only 8.3 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves, sharply lower than the range of 12.8 trillion to 26.7 trillion that has appeared in contradictory official versions.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:03 UTC

  Bolivia plans to buys vessels to operate from its Ilo port facilities

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales is considering the purchase of naval vessels to operate from the port of Ilo on the South Pacific coast helping the country to develop for the first time in 130 years its maritime resources.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2010 - 22:22 UTC

  Bolivia returns “privatized” stake in cement factory to local government

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday the expropriation and transfer to a provincial government of the 33% stake in the regional cement factory Fancesa.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 06:31 UTC

  Rare freshwater pink dolphins rescued in several days’ operation

  

  A total of 19 pink freshwater dolphins belonging to an extremely rare species living in the east of landlocked Bolivia have been rescued from a river covered in mud and deforestation residue, reported the Santa Cruz province governors’ office.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 22:09 UTC

  Brazil assures fearful Bolivia it will keep purchasing natural gas

  

  Brazilian government managed energy giant Petrobras said Bolivian natural gas will remain important for energy-hungry Brazil, where demand for that fuel is expected to triple over the next four years, Bolivian daily La Razon reported.

• Monday, August 16th 2010 - 03:42 UTC

  Bolivian gas and Paraguayan electricity for a deep sea port in Uruguay

  

  Physical integration particularly in energy and access to the sea were two of the main issues addressed by the presidents of Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, (Fernando Lugo, Jose Mujica and Evo Morales), during their Sunday meeting in Asunción in the framework of Urupabol, the regional group which brings together the three countries.