Tag: Karen Longaric

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:30 UTC

  Bolivia/Spain/Mexico spat escalates with the expulsion of diplomats

  

  Bolivia's interim president Jeanine Añez announced on Monday that the country will expel Mexico's ambassador and two Spanish diplomats, drawing a tit-for-tat response from Madrid as a dispute over an alleged attempt to extract an ex-government aide escalated.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Spain/Bolivia/Mexico spat over an alleged attempt to rescue ex president Morales aids accused of sedition

  

  Bolivia accused Spain of an abortive attempt to extract a wanted former government aid from Mexico's embassy in La Paz, prompting a sharp denial from Madrid. It was the latest twist in a murky incident on Friday involving embassy personnel in the Bolivian capital that has sparked a bitter diplomatic spat.

• Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 19:16 UTC

  Consulates in Argentina operational bases for Bolivian electoral fraud

  

  Bolivian consulates throughout Argentina were used by the Evo Morales government to promote fraud in the October 20 elections, according to the report on the case by the Organization of American States (OAS), Foreign Minister Karen Longaric announced. She added consul Ademar Valda led the operation.

• Friday, November 29th 2019 - 12:19 UTC

  Bolivia ready to restore diplomatic relations with Israel after a decade

  

  Bolivia says it will restore diplomatic ties with Israel, a decade after then-President Evo Morales severed relations because of an Israeli military offensive in Gaza.

• Thursday, November 28th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Bolivian interim government implements sharp shift in foreign policy in just two weeks

  

  Foreign policy of the interim Bolivian government foreign policy has shifted sharply in just two weeks under conservative President Jeanine Anez, a senator who took over in a power vacuum left by the resignation and exile of long-term leftist leader Evo Morales.

• Monday, November 18th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolivian interim government cuts relations with Venezuela and orders Cuban medical teams out of the country

  

  Bolivia's interim leadership says it has broken diplomatic ties with the Government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and ordered Cuban medical teams to leave Bolivia.