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 [...]

Bolivia’s former sub-comandante of the national police, general Oscar Muñoz, revealed yesterday that the orders that led to the harsh attack on the indigenous TIPNIS march by 500 police officers over a month ago in Yucumo were given by the Ministry of the Government. The police surprise attack led to dozens of injuries and arrests [...]

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 [...]

Two and a half years after a violent confrontation in a Santa Cruz hotel room that left three alleged foreign mercenaries dead, the terrorism case against the survivors is set to go before a new judge, Ricardo Maldonado, who will rule whether the case can proceed. A hearing will be held today in Cochabamba to [...]

Judge Carlos Guerrero ordered the “preventative detention” of eleven men and three women individuals including a judge, notary, and police colonel who are alleged to be involved in the attempt to illegally withdraw $1.4  from a bank account with false documents yesterday. The fourteen may face charges of “ideological fraud,” material fraud, fraud, and multiple-victim [...]

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 [...]

Today Bolivians all over the country voted, for the first time in history, for judges. Despite a ban on campaigning, the Supreme Electoral Council admitted that illegal campaigning before the election was so rampant that they had no ability to control it. The new judges will serve six year terms and do not have to [...]

Bolivia’s anti-drug police have discovered  shipments of drug hidden in cans of Pedigree Dogfood departing from Bolivia’s airports in Santa Cruz and El Alto. On October 3, police found three kilos hidden in sealed metal cans heading to London. Police do not know who sent the cans but yesterday detained a Portuguese man attempting to [...]

The national 24-hour strike by the COB, Bolivia’s largest labor union, in support of the Tipnis indigenous protestors, partially started today, although the main capitals of the scity have not yet began to feel its effect. Union workers said that it the strike will apply more pressure throughout the morning. The executive secretary of the [...]

Bolivian government minister Sacha Llorenti said that neither he nor President Evo Morales ordered the police intervention on the indigenous marchers that occurred this Sunday in San Miguel de Chaparina. According to Llorenti, the order was given by Marcos Farfán, who today resigned from his position as deputy minister of government. He will be investigated [...]