Boris Villegas, the director general of internal affairs, said on Thursday that he has been receiving threats that demand that he drop the Ròsza terrorism case. (In April of last year, Eduardo Ròsza-Flores, an alleged Bolivian-Hungarian mercenary, was killed with two other foreign nationals in Santa Cruz by Bolivian police. Government officials say they were [...]

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Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi arrived last night on a secret charter flight to Cochabamba´s Jorge Wilstermann airport according to Bolivian Government Minister Ivan Canelas. Canelas, the former Bolivian human rights overseer, welcomed Colonel Gaddafi with a traditional tutuma of chicha (strawberry chicha) and said, ¨We are happy to welcome our Libyan amigo, The Colonel.¨ A [...]

Unless new electoral appointments are announced by Rubén Costas, social movements are threatening to surround…

Dairy and sugar producers in Cochabamba and transport drivers from around the nation continue to pressure the government to obtain an increase in prices. The government is refusing the increases. Seven Cochabamba dairy-producers´ associations (with approximately 4,000 members, 80 percent of whom are women) marched yesterday through the streets and avenues of Cochabamba, gathering in [...]

Ignacio Villa Vargas—known as El Viejo— was apprehended yesterday in Santa Cruz, in pursuant to an order emitted by the prosecutors in “the case of the video,” which purportedly shows him receiving US$31,500. El Viejo, who is a key witness in the case of the alleged terrorist plot of April 2009 headed by the deceased [...]

The commander of the Bolivian police, general Óscar Nina, confirmed yesterday that his organization…

The level of Lake Titicaca is lower than normally expected for the time of year and is 15cm away from a drought alert being declared. According to Jorge Espinoza, Director of the National Naval Hydrography Service “Desaguadero is at a low level. The alert for Lake Titicaca is green but we are currently 15cm from [...]

Yesterday Bolivian President Evo Morales once again warned oil executives against becoming involved in politics and conspiring against his government…

On March 19 Bolivian police seized 2.560 kilos of cocaine paste in the Barrio Libertad area of Santa Cruz…