Eleven Bolivians were arrested yesterday in Chile on the suspicion of trafficking black market cars over the border to Bolivia. The group had ten cars and a large truck, none of which had valid passes or registrations. The group was stopped in the small town of Cariquima in northern Chile. The elven are between the [...]

Bolivia, Brazil, and the United States have signed a landmark anti-drug treaty that will allow outsiders to monitor coca destruction in Bolivia. John Creamer of the US Embassy in La Paz said, “This is a very important step in the fight against drugs.” Brazil’s ambassador Marcel Biato echoed his statements. Bolivia’s Government Minister, Wilfredo Chávez, [...]

On January 10th, the White House announced that current Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz will now serve as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council.  Ms. Munoz will coordinate the policy-making process and supervise the execution of domestic policy in the White House. Ms. Muñoz is the daughter of immigrants from Bolivia and was [...]

Argentine ex-military officer Luis Enrique Baraldini was extradited to Argentina on Christmas day, after authorities detained him in Santa Cruz. He was turned over to Argentine authorities at the border town of Bermejo. Baraldini, 71, was wanted in Argentina for crimes against humanity committed during that country’s dirty war in the 70s and 80s, in [...]

Bolivian President Evo Morales will meet with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala today in Cuzco, Peru, where he will also celebrate Christmas this weekend. The presidents are also expected to sign a joint declaration at the the end of the meeting, of which no details are known. According to the schedule released by the Bolivian government, [...]

Chilean foreign minister Alfredo Moreno said that Bolivia “will suffer the consequences” for taking its maritime claim to The Hague. Bolivian President Evo Morales yesterday announced that he will travel there in February in order to pursue a lawsuit against Chile in order to gain maritime access to the Pacific Ocean. Moreno, speaking for Chilean [...]

Campesinos in the Bermejo municipality of Tarija department blocked the international roadway joining Bolivia and Argentina in order to demand payment from the state’s Prosol program. The campesinos took the measure in order to pressure the governor of Tarija, Lino Condori. The head of Prosol in Bermejo, Agapo Hoyos, said that there are no resources [...]

The Bolivian foreign minister, David Choquehuaca, said yesterday at a press conference that under a recently penned framework agreement between Bolivia and the United States—intended to normalize relations between the two countries after a diplomatic break in 2008—the matter of former Bolivian President Gonzalo (Goni) Sanchez de Lozada would be addressed. Goni is wanted in [...]

A Norwegian court has ruled Christina Snemyr—formerly Christina Oygarden—innocent in a 2008 Cochabamba cocaine-smuggling case. In May of that year, Snemyr and fellow Norwegians Stina Brendemo Hagen and Madeleine Rodriguez were arrested at the Cochabamba airport when 22.5 kilos of cocaine were discovered in their luggage. In 2010, Snemyr escaped from Bolivia while out on [...]

On Wednesday, the Bolivian government registered indifference respecting the reestablishment of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), under which the United States government grants duty-free importation of a variety goods. In November 2008, then U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.S. congress removed Bolivia from the agreement after alleging that Bolivia [...]