Bolivia

LA PAZ, Bolivia — LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years. But some officers are upset by President Evo Morales' choice. The head of Bolivia's criminal police ...  

Since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first visited Bolivia in 2007, the relationship between Ahmadinejad and Bolivian President Evo Morales has grown. The two even played soccer together in Tehran not too long ago. But Morales and Ahmadinejad's ...  

Bolivian President Evo Morales, who has been in power since 2006, said he hoped his leftwing, nationalist policies would stay in place for "more than 500 years." "We did not come to the presidential palace just to rent it out. We are not just passing through.  

Dear Editor, Ricardo Farell’s May 20th article, “Bolivia: Nationalization Under the Microscope,” discusses the Andean country’s recent nationalization of the previously Spanish-owned Transportadora de Electricidad (TDE), and elaborates extensively on the takeover’s potential long-term consequences. Your article, however, makes no … Continue reading »  

One of the most dangerous places in the Western Hemisphere is the city of Warnes, Bolivia, which lies a few kilometers outside the country’s industrial capital of Santa Cruz. There, set back in an open field off a bustling highway, is the new regional defense school of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, or ALBA—the eight-member economic and geopolitical bloc founded by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro nearly a decade ago...  

Santa Cruz, Bolivia – Jacob Ostreicher, Accused of Money Laundering, Says He Is Innocent In a grim Bolivian prison, a lone American man has languished for nearly a year, uncharged by authorities who have accused him of money laundering, but he says he is innocent of any wrongdoing and refuses to give in. “It’s an [...]  

[...] October 2011, after a large march of indigenous peoples and protestors arrived in La Paz, President Evo Morales passed a bill declaring the TIPNIS “intangible” or “untouchable”, [...]  

CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA--May 7, 2012--Researched by Industrial Info Research Latin America (Córdoba, Argentina)--Petrobras Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Bolivia), a subsidiary of Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), has announced its investment plan for 2012 ...  

YPFB is seeking new foreign investment to boost reserves and production in Bolivia, where President Evo Morales nationalized the energy industry in 2006. Natural gas is the impoverished South American country's biggest export. Petrobras informed ...  

Spanish energy major Repsol has signed agreements with Bolivian state-owned firm YPFB to study the potential of two hydrocarbon prospects - one in the eastern part of the country and another in the Andean region. The director of Repsol’s Bolivian ...  

As neighboring Argentina brings its oil supply under state control, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced last week that his government has placed the country’s electricity sector under public ownership by seizing the main power grid from a ...  

Bolivian president Evo Morales ordered soldiers to take over the offices of a subsidiary of Red Electrica Corporacion SA (REE) in Cochabamba and unfurled Bolivia's flag across its entry. Morales said it had failed to invest sufficiently in Bolivia.  

Evo Morales pledges to compensate Red Electrica for taking control of Transportadora de Electricidad One-Minute Read LAST UPDATED AT 13:44 ON Thu 3 May 2012 THE BOLIVIAN government has promised to pay Spanish power giant Red Electrica Corporacion compensation for seizing its electricity grid, according to a statement issued by the Bolivian state news agency.  President Evo Morales, stepped in on May Day...  

After weeks of violent protests and even a hunger strike among health workers, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales says he is suspending a controversial medical reform plan. The aim was to increase the working day from six to eight hours in state ...  

In a somewhat florid speech on May Day, Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, declared that the expropriation of Spain’s Transportadora de Electricidad was a way to “pay homage to the workers and Bolivians that have fought for the recovery of ...