Tag: Evo Morales

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 12:46 UTC

  Bolivia back steps and offers new deal to attract foreign oil companies

  

  President Evo Morales’ government has offered to reimburse 100% of the cost of successful exploratory drilling in Bolivia by private oil and natural gas companies, state-owned energy company YPFB announced this week.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2010 - 08:04 UTC

  Bolivia formalizes recognition of sovereign Palestine state with pre-1967 borders

  

  Bolivia formally recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state within the 1967 borders, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday. Reports last week indicated that such a decision was imminent

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Saturday, August 14th 2010 - 08:23 UTC

  Lugo returns to Paraguay; Sunday he meets presidents Morales and Mujica

  

  Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo is expected Saturday morning back in the capital Asunción from Sao Paulo where he underwent a first treatment of chemotherapy after earlier in the week he was diagnosed with a lymphoma which has extended to the chest and a vertebrae.

• Sunday, August 1st 2010 - 23:23 UTC

  Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian president arrested with 240 kilos of cocaine

  

  The Aymara priest who blessed Bolivian President Evo Morales at an inauguration ceremony four years ago has been arrested in possession of 240 kilos of cocaine, police said.

• Monday, July 5th 2010 - 05:02 UTC

  Morales inaugurates presidential jet and former Miss Bolivia as special envoy

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales has a new presidential aircraft, a Falcon 900EX manufactured by the French company Dassault. The Bolivian Air Force One was delivered by Philippe Létrilliart, France’s Chargé d’Affairs in La Paz during a ceremony at the air base of El Alto.

• Monday, May 24th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  Morales tells Spanish companies their investments in Bolivia are protected

  

  Investments by Spanish firms are protected in new Bolivian regulations, but companies involved in plots against the government will not be forgiven, said President Evo Morales on Sunday during a fence-mending speech.

• Thursday, May 13th 2010 - 10:58 UTC

  Bolivian Presidency Buys Manchester United Dassault Falcon Craft

  

  The Bolivian government confirmed this week that it has bought a luxury airplane model Dassault Falcon 900Ex Easy that originally belonged to Manchester United. The admission came in the midst of growing social unrest to protest for a higher national minimum wage.