The government has signed an accord with handicapped citizens who had been marching in protest. The accord will create a commission to study whether Bolivia can afford a monthly welfare payment to handicapped individuals. The marchers are asking for Bs. 3000 per month ($428 or roughly four times Bolivia’s minimum wage). The La Paz president [...]

Bolivia’s Minister of Communication Iván Canelas, resigned from the government effective on January 20. Canelas read a letter announcing his resignation and thanking president Evo Morales for the chance to help him. “The chance of helping you in this arduous job has been an important experience in my life, however, for motives that you are [...]

On January 10th, the White House announced that current Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz will now serve as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council.  Ms. Munoz will coordinate the policy-making process and supervise the execution of domestic policy in the White House. Ms. Muñoz is the daughter of immigrants from Bolivia and was [...]

The legislative processes pushed by the ruling Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party in the assembly will not be as easily achieved as they were in the last two years (2010-11) of President Evo Morales’s second term, due to divisions in the party that will prevent it from a two-thirds majority in the congress: an anti-Moralas [...]

Moisés Tórrez, the candidate of the bloc in opposition to the ruling-party MAS, emerged as the winner in the Sucre mayoral election, with 46.54 percent of the votes. MAS candidate Iván Arciénega, of MAS, came in second place, with 37.7 percent of the vote. Elsewhere, Charles Becerra, of the UNE party, declared himself winner of [...]

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 [...]

For two weeks, beginning this Friday, La Paz will have both its youngest mayor ever and its first female mayor ever when psychologist Silvia Tamayo Salvatierra takes control while La Paz mayor Luis Revilla Herrero visits Italy, France, and Germany. “We will continue with the work that the mayor was doing and I thank you [...]

Initial electoral results reported show that null and invalid votes have won a landslide victory in yesterday’s election, garnering 60% of the popular vote, with actual votes for candidates a little less than 40%. President Morales had said that he hoped valid votes would surpass 70% of the totals but none the less said he [...]

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 [...]

Workers from four different government ministries have spoken with Radio Erbol and other news sources complaining about being forced to pay for the President Morales’ campaign in the upcoming judicial elections. Workers were also forced to attend a “counter march” against the indigenous Amazonian TIPNIS march or risk penalties to their salary and loss of [...]