Tag: Evo Morales

• 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.

• Wednesday, May 5th 2010 - 21:15 UTC

  “Transgenic Fight Back”: Evo Morales Car Stolen by “Bald Suspect”

  

  A car used by Bolivian President Evo Morales was stolen when the driver went to buy bread rolls for the president's breakfast, officials said.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 02:16 UTC

  Colombia’s Uribe Warns Nationalizations Lead to “Major Social Defeats”

  

  Colombian president Alvaro Uribe questioned Latin American countries that are moving along the path of nationalization of corporations and warned that erasing private sector investments only anticipates “major social defeats”.

• Friday, April 30th 2010 - 05:30 UTC

  Bolivian President Again Attacks “Hormone Loaded” Farmed Chickens

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales again referred to the harmful effects of consuming transgenic food, a week after he triggered an international outrage when he said that eating chicken, manipulated with hormones, caused “sexual deviations and boldness” in men.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2010 - 06:22 UTC

  Bolivian President Apologizes to Spanish Gay and Lesbian Organizations

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales sent a letter to gay and lesbian organizations in Spain expressing respect for sexual diversity, according to the Executive’s press office and spokesperson Iván Canelas.

• Saturday, April 24th 2010 - 01:38 UTC

  Brazilian Farmers Blast Morales on His Broiler–Homosexuality Link Statement

  

  Brazilian broiler breeders, the world’s largest exporters rejected and slammed Bolivian president Evo Morales’ statements that linked the consumption of chicken to homosexuality.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 00:56 UTC

  Gays and lesbians accuse Bolivia’s Morales of “state homophobia”

  

  Gay and lesbian organizations world wide are up in arms demanding Bolivian president Evo Morales rectify his statements on homosexuality which were described as outrageous and “state homophobia”.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2010 - 03:16 UTC

  Lula da Silva says Brazil must extend a hand to Latinamerica’s poor countries

  

  President Lula da Silva defended his “diversification” diplomacy and said that Brazil must extend “a friendly hand” to all Latinamerican countries. He recalled that some interest groups in Brazil wanted him to strongly confront the governments of Bolivia and Paraguay because of differences over energy policies.