Tag: Sacha Llorenti

• Wednesday, July 29th 2015 - 06:58 UTC

  UN committee agrees on nine principles for restructuring sovereign debts

  

  A United Nations committee, after six months work, on Tuesday, unanimously adopted a “historic” report that establishes nine principles for restructuring sovereign debt, the committee's chair Sacha Llorenti of Bolivia told reporters.

• Monday, June 16th 2014 - 05:52 UTC

  G77 plus China summit confirms the close ties of Beijing with Latin America

  

  The summit of G77 leaders plus China wrapped up Sunday with a call for an end to poverty by 2030, after a demand by Bolivia's President Evo Morales to eliminate the UN Security Council. It also marked the presence of Beijing which has become the leading trade partner of many Latam countries.

• Wednesday, September 28th 2011 - 02:34 UTC

  Bolivia’s Interior minister steps down and controversial jungle road is suspended

  

  Bolivia's Interior minister and his Deputy resigned Tuesday after mounting recriminations over a violent police crackdown on marchers opposed to a jungle highway that they say would despoil an indigenous preserve.

• 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.