Tag: Bolivia

• Wednesday, June 1st 2011 - 08:42 UTC

  Bolivia tells Iranian Defence minister to leave and apologizes to Argentina

  

  The Bolivian Government asked Iranian Defence Minister Ahmad Vahídi, accused by Argentina of masterminding the Buenos Aires AMIA terrorist attack in 1994, to leave the country after an Argentine attorney asked Interpol to arrest him, Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said.

• Thursday, April 28th 2011 - 02:08 UTC

  France’s Total makes mega find that could boost Bolivia’s gas reserves by a third

  

  The French energy giant Total and its Argentine partner, Tecpetrol, announced the discovery of a major natural gas find in Aquio in southeast Bolivia.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 05:47 UTC

  Controversy in Bolivia about the true volume of proven natural gas reserves

  

  Bolivia has fallen from second to sixth place in the ranking of largest holder of proven natural gas reserves in South America, with Peru behind Venezuela as the two leading countries, admitted a Bolivian Hydrocarbons Association, or CBH, report.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  Chavez begins South American tour; praises Syria’s Assad as a humanist

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez begins Monday a tour of four South American countries to strengthen ties and to analyze existing accords, the Bolivarian revolution leader said on Sunday.

• Saturday, March 26th 2011 - 08:13 UTC

  Deaths and thousands infected with dengue in Paraguay and Bolivia

  

  The dengue disease transmitted by the ”Aedes aegypti” mosquito is again on the attack in most South American countries with Paraguay reporting 18 deaths and Bolivia, 20 and thousands infected so far this year.

• Thursday, March 24th 2011 - 20:14 UTC

  Bolivia considering international court to claim coastline lost to Chile

  

  Bolivia is prepared to take Chile to the International court of The Hague over its claim to a section of Pacific coast that it lost in a war more than 130 years ago, Bolivian President Evo Morales said Wednesday.

• Friday, March 4th 2011 - 01:31 UTC

  Bolivia signs gas exploration agreements with Petrobras and Repsol

  

  Bolivia's state-owned oil company YPF Bolivianos said this week that it has signed oil and gas exploration agreements with Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2011 - 19:02 UTC

  Bolivian top anti-drugs intelligence advisor jailed in Miami for narcotics smuggling

  

  A top Bolivian security official pled not guilty in a Miami federal court Wednesday on charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., in a scandal that has rocked the government of Evo Morales and provoked a wide-ranging police crackdown.

• Thursday, February 17th 2011 - 23:09 UTC

  Bolivia’s powerful unions turn on President Morales to protest food prices

  

  Bolivia’s powerful Workers Union, COB, called for a 24 hours general strike Friday against the government of President Evo Morales to protest food and public transport price hikes.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 06:08 UTC

  Bolivia will appeal to Central bank reserves to stockpile food staples

  

  Bolivia prepared to tap its record 10 billion US dollars in central bank reserves to help boost agricultural production and stockpile food staples as a hedge against a looming global “food crisis” Finance Minister Luis Arce said.