Bolivia: President Evo Morales Celebrates Ten Years in Office
Evo Morales today celebrated ten years as Bolivia’s President with an indigenous ceremony to thank Pachamama (Mother Earth). The 45 minute ceremony, held before his official ten-year anniversary...
View ArticleLatin American Leaders Denounce Effects of Capitalism on Environment
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the second World People’s Summit on Climate Change, with Latin American leaders denouncing the effects of global capitalism on the environment and stressing the need for...
View ArticleBolivia: President Morales Plans Referendum to Reform Judiciary
President Evo Morales (photo courtesy of Bolivian government)Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum to implement a reform of the country’s judiciary. Speaking yesterday at...
View ArticleBolivia: Morales Wins Third Term With Landslide Victory
President Evo Morales voting yesterday – he won a third term by a landslide. (Photo: AFP/Aizar Raldes/Télam) Bolivian president Evo Morales has been re-elected for a third term after picking up 60% of...
View ArticleThe Indy Guide to October’s Elections in South America
October is set to be a decisive month in South American politics, with more than 150m people in Brazil, Bolivia, and Uruguay set to cast their vote in presidential and legislative elections. While the...
View ArticleBolivia: President Morales to Sign for First Division Football Club
Evo Morales in action (photo: María C Lagos/Télam) Bolivian president Evo Morales has been signed up to play professional football for Club Sport Boys Warnes, in the country’s first division, local...
View ArticleLatin America News Roundup: 30th April 2014
Yasuní National Park (photo: Joshua Bousel on Flickr) Ecuador – Yasuní Activists Say Referendum Petition ‘Manipulated’: Campaigners seeking to prevent oil drilling in the Yasuní National Park claim the...
View ArticleBolivia: “We Are Better Off Without the DEA,” says Morales
Bolivian president Evo Morales at the anniversary of the FELCN (photo courtesy of Bolivian Government) Bolivian President Evo Morales affirmed yesterday that the fight against drugs in the country has...
View ArticleBolivia: President Accepts Apology from European Countries
Evo Morales (Photo by Sebastian Baryli) Bolivian President Evo Morales has accepted apologies from France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal after he was denied the European countries’ airspace when returning...
View ArticleBolivia: President Morales ‘Would Offer’ Asylum to Edward Snowden
Evo Morales (Photo by Sebastian Baryli)Bolivian President Evo Morales announced today that he would offer US whistleblower Edward Snowden political asylum if he requested it, in defiance of a US...
View ArticleBolivia: Unasur Meets To Discuss Evo Morales’ Plane Diversion
Bolivian president Evo Morales talks to the press at the Vienna airport (photo: AFP/Patrick Domingo/Télam/lz) Six Unasur leaders are meeting today in Bolivia to discuss Evo Morales’ plane diversion...
View ArticleBolivia: Complaint Filed to UN over European Airspace Row
Bolivian president Evo Morales (Photo by Sebastian Baryli) A diplomatic crisis has been sparked after Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane was denied airspace in Europe. The Andean nation has turned...
View ArticleBolivia: President’s Plane Diverted to Austria on Snowden Suspicions
Evo Morales (Photo by Sebastian Baryli)A plane carrying Bolivian president Evo Morales has been diverted to Austria on suspicion that US whistle blower Edward Snowden was on board, reported the...
View ArticleBolivia: President Morales Expels US Agency
Get out USAID by Josh Self, on Flickr Bolivian President Evo Morales demanded the expulsion of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from his country on Wednesday. “USAID is out; I ask...
View ArticleThe Sacred Leaf: How Bolivia Is Helping Change the Anti-Drug Paradigm
Bolivian Coca Growers Celebrate the United Nations Accepting The Chewing of Coca Leaf (Photo: Matthew Straubmuller, on Flickr) Upon hearing the news, Bolivians marched in the streets beneath Andean...
View ArticleBolivia: UN Victory for the Nation’s Coca Chewers
Bolivia won readmission to the United Nations Convention on Narcotic Drugs yesterday when the organisation voted to recognise the chewing of coca leaves as a legal, cultural practice in the Andean...
View ArticleBolivia: Government Claims ‘Proof’ of US Plotting Against Evo Morales
The Bolivian government declared yesterday that it has “concrete evidence” that the US continues to meddle in domestic affairs. Minister for the presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana, said he will present...
View ArticleBolivia: Government Nationalises Spanish-Owned Electricity Companies
Bolivian president Evo Morales announced yesterday the nationalisation of four electricity companies based in the cities of La Paz and Oruro, all subsidiaries of the Spanish company Iberdrola. The...
View ArticleBolivia: Census Completed ‘with Integrity’
Last night Bolivian president Evo Morales announced the successful near completion of the Population and Settlement Census 2012. The National Statistical Institute (INE) affirmed that data was...
View ArticleBolivia: May Call On International Courts to Resolve Territorial Dispute with...
On Tuesday, Bolivian officials broached the possibility of resorting to international arbitration in their dispute with Chile over coastal territory. The comments advance a verbal spar between Chilean...
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