More than one hundred elderly Bolivians blocked the only highway linking La Paz with El Alto today to demand an increase in the senior citizen payment renta Dignidad. “It’s been three years that we’ve been asking for an audience with President Evo Morales, because we’re demanding an increase in the renta Dignidad,” said the executive [...]

On his birthday yesterday, President Evo Morales announced that he will spend at least 10.5 million bolivianos to build a presidential airport terminal in La Paz with its own hangars.  Morales said at an air force gathering, “I want to take this opportunity to inform about this project of a new presidential terminal and its [...]

Just 48 hours after the indigenous Amazonian marchers arrived in La Paz, President Morales has caved in to their central demand and announced that he will not build a highway through the TIPNIS (Indigenous Territory in the Isiboro Securé National Park). The marchers have been walking from their tribal villages in the Amazon for 67 [...]

Bolivia, a country which exports natural gas and oil to its neighbors, has begun blackouts in its three largest cities by order of the National Distribution Committee (CNDC)  due to a lack of enough electricity to meet demand. Bolivia nationalized several electrical companies over the past five years and electrical production has declined in the [...]

In October 70 professionals from the Bolivian Space Agency will travel to China for a training on how to operate the Tupac Katari satellite that Bolivia has purchased from China. The satellite will be put in orbit in the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014 and will cost Bolivia $295 million dollars, $255 million [...]

Admiral Pacheco of the Bolivian armed forces announced that yesterday Bolivia began flying its six new Chinese K-8 fighter jets for the first time. Pacheco presented three of the six planes to President Morales during a military parade celebrating “Dia de la Patria” in Tarija. The admiral said that the planes will be used against [...]

Bolivian president Evo Morales has called on the legislature to draft a proposal to amend a law restricting the press and judicial candidates from free expression during elections. The Electoral System Act prohibits candidates from giving interviews to the media and provides for sanctions against the media that disseminate information other than what issued by [...]

Lidia Gueiler Tejada, who was president of Bolivia from 1979 to 1980, has died at the age of 89. Throughout the past 60 years, Gueiler has participated in many important political moments in Bolivia, having been part of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) party in 1948, before the 1952 revolution. After the MNR was toppled [...]

Two Bolivian Air Force pilots and Four United Nations anti-narcotics workers were found dead in a jungled area of the Inquisivi province of La Paz. The plane crashed with a terrific impact into a 50 meter high tree near a stream and then caught on fire however investigators have not yet declared which of these [...]

A small Cessna airplane belonging to the Bolivian Air Force (FAB) is missing as of yesterday when it was conducting fly-overs of the Yungas towns of Coroico, La Asunta, and Caranavi near La Paz. The plane left from El Alto International Airport yesterday at 10:30 and was supposed to have returned at 2:30 in the [...]