Tag: Evo Morales

Friday, June 24th 2011 - 10:45 UTC
Chilean officials fear Bolivia’s car amnesty program will encourage more thefts

Bolivia’s government estimates that 85,000 cars will benefit from its new amnesty program that allows undocumented vehicles to register without prior paperwork. Chileans are not pleased about the path to immunity.
Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 23:47 UTC
Humala invites Morales to consider the re-unification of Peru and Bolivia

Peruvian president elect Ollanta Humala invited his Bolivian peer Evo Morales to consider bilateral integration, in which both countries would unite into a confederation as happened between 1836 and 1839.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 16:49 UTC
Bolivia legalizes 76.000 cars smuggled or stolen from neighbouring countries

Owners of 70.000 cars that were smuggled into Bolivia, most of them stolen in neighbouring countries have presented their cases in the Customs office taking advantage of an amnesty to legalize their situation decreed by the administration of President Evo Morales.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 07:52 UTC
Andean Aymará people celebrate the coming of New Year 5519

Accompanied by Andean highlands rituals in the citadel of Tiwanacu, to the north of Bolivia’s capital La Paz the indigenous Aymará will celebrate on Tuesday the coming of the Aymará New Year, 5519.
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 02:54 UTC
South American countries divided over allied bombings of Libya

Several South American countries are demanding an immediate cease fire in Libya and questioning the intensity and extensive bombing by an alliance of NATO strike forces of several cities under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’ control.
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.