After ten hours of dialogue, the delegation from Tarija walked out of negotiations with the representatives of Chuquisaca department and the Bolivian government, rejecting the accord that would share revenues from the Margarita gas fields between the Tarija and Chuquisaca departments. At the root of the conflict is the hiring of a U.S. company, Gaffney [...]

Civic leaders in Tarija have called for a strike and blockade of international routes linking that department to border crossings to Paraguay and Argentina. Preliminary reports confirm that the international bridge at Bermejo, linking to Aguas Blancas in Argentina, is closed, and the capital city of Tarija is undergoing a general strike in the city [...]

The World Bank announced yesterday that it will invest US$250 million in Bolivian rural development and highway infrastructure projects. Oscar Avalle, the outgoing World Bank representative in Bolivia, met with Bolivian President Evo Morales yesterday to discuss development strategies and to introduce his successor, Faris Hadad Zervos, who will hold the post for the next [...]

In Cochabamba alone, authorities estimate that 11, 300 vehicles are operating without license plates. With Bolivia’s recent amensty for all illegal vehicles complete, a new law requires all these newly regisitered vehicle owners to purchase new licnese plates in order to receive service at fueling stations. All gas stations must now register the license plate [...]

In the department of Oruro, several civic and social organizations have begun a three-day strike a closure of national and international roads to call on the government to solve a border dispute between Quillacas, Oruro, and Coroma, Potosí, both of which are vying for an area rich in Limestone. The president of the Oruro Civic [...]

The Brazilian government is waiting for its Bolivian counterpart to find an alternative project to the Villa Tunari–San Ignacio de Moxos highway. That project, which would traverse the TIPNIS indigenous territory, was recently canceled after massive protests and a march on the capital that lasted 65 days. “From the standpoint of the Brazilian government, it [...]

After being missing for two days the crashed remains of an Aerocon flight from Santa Cruz to Trinidad were located in the jungle just 30 kilometers from their destination along with the bodies of eight of the nine passengers. One passenger, Minor Vidal, remains unaccounted for and authorities hope that he may have left the [...]

Smoke from burning Amazonian fires has engulfed much of Bolivia in an annual tradition called the Chaqeo whereby farmers burn brush and forest to clear land. Many of the fires have burned out of control and at least 394 families had fled their homes as a result. The skies over major cities like Santa Cruz [...]

The Cochabamba Classic Car Club (CVCC) has organized the first ever Classic Car Exposition for this upcoming weekend at the event center El Campo. The event will benefit the burn victim unit of he Viedma hospital and various local and national TV stations are expected to attend. The CVCC was founded in 1997 and has [...]

The Santa Cruz Federation of Peasant Workers announced that starting today it would block roads in the Santa Cruz department in order to demand the resignation of the minister of rural development and agriculture, Nemesia Achacollo, whom they accused of betraying the peasant movement. Félix Vera, the press secretary of the peasant organization, told Radio [...]