According to internet search and site ranking authority Alexa.com the most popular Bolivian website is eldeber.com. However, of all the sites visited by people in Bolivia El Deber (The main Santa Cruz newspaper) only ranks number 11 after sites like #1 facebook.com, #2 google.com and #5 youtube.com.  This ranking suggests that Bolivians use the internet [...]

Conflict broke out this morning between rural teachers and police when officers tried to break up blockades on the La Paz-Oruro highway. Television reports state that police threw tear gas at demonstrators who responded with…

The Bolivian government plans to pass a revolutionary law bestowing human rights upon nature. The law, la Ley de Derechos de la Madre Tierra (The Law of Mother Earth), would grant nature such rights as…

Yesterday, the government reversed its position of the past month and decided to sit down to talks with Bolivia’s largest labor union, the COB. The COB had been infuriated when the government announced a 20% minimum wage increase (and 10% for government workers) without consulting the COB and they have been staging marches and demonstrations [...]

Relations between the Movement to Socialism government and the country’s largest labor union have hit an all-time low today. The union (COB) bussed its members to La Paz yesterday and surrounded the Bolivian federal government buildings in a giant march, battling police and launching thunderous explosives (petardos). The COB was infuriated when the Bolivian government [...]

María Cecilia Chacón is the new defense minister of Bolivia, having been sworn in last night by president Evo Morales. Chacón, a lawyer and political scientist, replaces Rubén Saavedra, who was appointed head of the newly created maritime strategic management authority. Chacón, the first woman to head the defense department, previously served as general director [...]

Samuel Doria Medina, wealthy businessman and leader of the UN (Unidad Nacional) political party, who ran against Evo Morales in several presidential election, has been suddenly “preemptively” arrested. Judge Weimar Guzmán, of Chuquisaca (Sucre) has ordered Medina’s “Preemptive Arrest” while the government prepares charges of “Harming the Nation” against him relating to a transaction between [...]

March 30th, 2011 marks the one year anniversary of Jaime Escalante’s death, yet many Bolivians and foreigners alike are unaware of the remarkable legacy left by this humble Aymara man who received admiring visits from the likes of US President Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not many people realize that one of the most famous [...]

LA PAZ – Today, representatives from the Bolivian Workers’ Center (COB) confirmed that a strike will take place this Monday and Tuesday in response to…

Today President Evo Morales along with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez has voiced his support for Libya’s dictator of 42 years, Muammar Gaddafi and expressed his opposition to any outside military interference in Libya. Morales rejected the United Nations decree and no-fly zone saying that they were merely a pretext for gaining control of Lidia’s [...]