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 [...]

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, a Mexican national and former wife of Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, was denied permission to enter U.S. airspace last week on a Aeromexico flight to Spain, where she was due to attend a conference on Latin American social movements. Gutiérrez lived in Bolivia from 1984 to 2001, when she returned to [...]

David Choquehaunca, the foreign minister of Bolivia, announced yesterday that the presidents of Bolivia and Chile, Evo Morales and Sebastián Piñera, could meet in Lima this Thursday, when they are both due to attend the Peruvian presidential inauguration ceremonies of Ollanta Humala. Morales and Piñera have been embroiled in a dispute over maritime access that [...]

Yesterday, the United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) criticized the “unprecedented” decision of Bolivia to renounce the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Bolivia recently renounced the 1961 convention because it classifies the coca leaf as a comparable drug to heroin and cocaine. Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) legislators, who share the same political party as [...]

Bolivian President Evo Morales apologized to Argentine Jews for a visit earlier this year by the Iranian defense minister, Ahmad Vahidi. Vahidi is wanted by Interpol in connection with the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994. Vahidi visited the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz in late May to attend a military celebration. [...]

At approximately 6:30 pm yesterday Bolivian President Evo Morales and his Argentine counterpart, Cristina Fernández, gave the order from Buenos Aires to open the valve of the new gas pipeline near the Bolivian town of Yacuiba at the Argentine border. While the leaders observed the Bolivian operations by videoconference, Bolivian and Argentine functionaries fulfilled their [...]