Tag: Evo Morales

• Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 07:01 UTC

  Bolivia willing to compensate for silver mine but positions are distant

  

  Bolivian government is willing to compensate South American Silver Corp for revoking its concession on the Malku Khota project, but it will be far less than the 16 million dollars the company says it has invested, the country's vice president said on Thursday.

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 07:00 UTC

  Canada protests Bolivian decision to revoke licence to mine silver deposits

  

  Canadian company is protesting Bolivia's decision to revoke its licence to mine a rich silver deposit in the country and nationalize the project.

• Monday, July 9th 2012 - 12:45 UTC

  Bolivia: Indigenous rioting threaten Canadian mining company with nationalization

  

  Bolivia will consider nationalizing Canadian miner South American Silver Corp's silver property, President Evo Morales said on Sunday, following violent indigenous protests against the mining project.

• Wednesday, June 27th 2012 - 20:24 UTC

  Bolivian police return to work with a first main job: contain an indigenous march

  

  Bolivia's police ended a violent mutiny and went back to work on Wednesday after reaching an accord with government ministers and the police leadership on pay and disciplinary rules, satisfying lower-ranking officers who had rejected a previous deal.

• Tuesday, June 26th 2012 - 04:36 UTC

  Bolivian police sixth day of mutiny: clashes between Morales supporters and strikers

  

  Rebel police clashed with pro-government supporters Monday outside Bolivia's presidential palace in the capital La Paz on the sixth day of a mutiny demanding better pay.

• Monday, June 25th 2012 - 06:30 UTC

  Striking Bolivian rank-and-file police disregard officers and reject pay agreement

  

  Striking Bolivian police officers have rejected an accord with the government four days into a nationwide strike to demand higher wages. The protesting rank-and-file police burned copies of the agreement during marches across Bolivia Sunday and said they would elect new representatives.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  Iranian president meets with Bolivia’s Morales reinforce cooperation deals

  

  Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stopped in Bolivia Tuesday en route to the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, to court support from another Latin American nation which has tense ties with the United States.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 03:08 UTC

  “Malvinas for Argentina and sea outlet for Bolivia” demands Morales at OAS meeting

  

  As anticipated in the opening speech of the 42 OAS General Assembly hosted by landlocked Bolivia, President Evo Morales put on the discussion table his country’ aspiration for an outlet to the Pacific Ocean linking it to Argentina’s sovereignty dispute with the UK over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  “Malvinas for Argentina and sea for Bolivia” battle cry at next OAS assembly

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales announced on Monday he will request at the coming Organization of American States, OAS General Assembly to be held in Cochabamba that the issues of Malvinas Argentine sovereignty and a sea outlet for Bolivia be discussed.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 19:14 UTC

  India’s ambitious project to mine 20bn tons of iron ore in Bolivia at risk

  

  India’s Jinda Steel & Power's ambitious Bolivian project to mine 20 billion tons of iron ore is at risk after the Bolivian government encashed yet another 18-million dollars bank guarantee from the Indian firm for not meeting contractual terms.