Bolivia’s vice minister of Foreign Relations, Juan Carlos Alurralde, and the US sub-secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, María Otero, signed an accorded designed to get bilateral relations back on track. Bolivia expelled the US Ambassador in 2008 and the US responded by expelling the Bolivian Ambassador in Washington, so the two countries [...]

The Brazilian government is waiting for its Bolivian counterpart to find an alternative project to the Villa Tunari–San Ignacio de Moxos highway. That project, which would traverse the TIPNIS indigenous territory, was recently canceled after massive protests and a march on the capital that lasted 65 days. “From the standpoint of the Brazilian government, it [...]

Norwegian mercenary ex-soldiers—and a journalist from Oslo—helped Stina Brendemo, 21, escape on August 9 from Cochabamba, according to a Norwegian newspaper. Brendemo is a young Norwegian woman who was sentenced in May 2008 to 13 years in jail for attempted trafficking of cocaine to Europe. Brendemo was conditionally released on bail in August after paying [...]

In an interview with the Telesur television network, Bolivian President Evo Morales said that the Transitional Council of Libya causes insecurities for countries becuase it arose from a coup d’état against the government of Muammar Gaddafi. Because of this, Morales said that Bolivia will not recognize that body as the government of Libya. “It is [...]

Yesterday President Evo Morales received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Havana for his “work fighting for dignity of the oppressed peoples of Latin America,” said Morales. Morales is in Cuba before continuing on to New York for a meeting of the Organization of American States. Morales spoke about the fight of Latin [...]

At least eleven people died and 228 were injured when a bus slammed into a train yesterday in Buenos Aires. A Bolivian family were among the dead. Young Edwin Huanca (22, his wife Yamila Machaca (19) and their newborn baby Kevin Huanca were among the dead. They had just arrived in Argentina to work two [...]

David Choquehuanca, the Bolivian foreign minister and his Spanish counterpart Trinidad Jiménez, have signed a “open skies” agreement between the two countries to allow increased air traffic back and forth from Bolivia and Spain.  Currently, Aerosur, is the only Bolivian airline authorized to make international flights from Bolivia to Spain. This new agreement may pave [...]

China offered Bolivia cooperation in four areas and signed several agreements, Bolivian President Evo Morales stated yesterday after returning from the Asian country, where he visited for six days. Morales emphasized that the meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, achieved agreements for assistance in energy, minerals, infrastructure, and food security. Morales furthermore praised China [...]

Government minister Sacha Llorenti anticipated that three of the four Peruvians detained on Monday in the city of El Alto for narcotrafficking and terrorism could be deported, while the fourth couldn’t be deported because of his refugee status. Llorenti said that he is cooperating with the Peruvian authorities in order to decide the future of [...]

Bolivian President Evo Morales and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera met yesterday and discussed a bilateral agenda, including Bolivia’s maritime-access demand, at a one-and-a-half-hour meeting in Lima. It marked a resumption of dialogue between the two countries that was halted four months ago. However, Piñera emphasized that a return to talks is conditioned on Bolivia’s compliance [...]