The so called “Terán Clan” was headed by two young sisters who were Coca Union leaders and national assembly members of Evo Morales’ Movement to Socialism party. They were also powerful narcotics traffickers who were caught with 147 kilograms of cocaine over two years ago. Some 700 days later, their trial has finally begun however [...]

President Evo Morales announced today in Tacobamba (Potosí) his decision to spend $2 billion of Bolivian’s $10.6 billion currency reserves. Morales said that the idea was suggested to him by Chaparé’s coca growers, and said he wants the money to go into major infrastructure projects and will put the money’s use to a people’s referendum. [...]

By Ed Young Martha Estivariz’s Ballet Espana in special engagement at Cochabamba’s Teatro Acha, May 6, 7 & 8. In order to relieve the stress of getting tickets to her perennially sold-out seasons of Spanish Dance at Cochabamba’s Teatro Acha, Maestra Estivariz and Teatro Acha’s management have devised a special, mid-year season, comprising both new [...]

After the body of Radio Fides press director David Niño de Guzmán was founded at the end of Zavaleta Avenue on Thursday in La Paz, police found his glasses, watch and traces of dynamite nearby. Guzmán, originally from the poor Nortern Potosí  town of  Uncía, had 16 years experience in Bolivian journalism. Hundreds of family, [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday, the Bolivian deputy minister of productive development, Héctor Córdova, announced that unions in four mines once owned by the Bolivian state have asked the government not to nationalize the mines. There’s been speculation that Bolivian president Evo Morales might announce the nationalization of Pan American Silver’s San Vincente mine and Coeur D’Alene’s San Bartolomé [...]

After expelling the US Drug Enforcement Agency from Bolivia, strongly criticizing US anti-drug forces as meddling imperialists, and threatening to expel US-AID, President Evo Morales has accepted $250,000 from the United States of America to purchase the “latest generation” equipment to monitor coca-growing. This announcement was made by the vice-minister of Controlled Substances Felipe Cáceres [...]

Thousands of campesinos, coca growers, and MAS supporters converged in central Cochabamba today in support of Bolivian president Evo Morales, and in opposition to strikes and protests carried out by the COB, Bolivia’s largest labor union. Strikes and roadblocks have paralyzed parts of Bolivia over the last week, as demonstrators have blocked major routes between [...]

Americans Liz Pagano and Kimberly McGuiven took the Bolivians, Johanna Balderrama and Claudia Pavisic by 2-0 (21-13 and 21-17), to win the title to the fourth stage of the Worldwide Circuit of Beach Volleyball that ended April 17th on the field of Cochabamba’s Olympic Club, located on Costanera avenue. Liz Pagano is a Beach Volleyball [...]

Yesterday morning, at least three people were injured in a clash between health workers and teachers who were blocking the road between Trinidad and Santa Cruz and transport workers who were stuck in place on the road. The incident took place in the area of Mituquije. Despite an agreement to alleviate the roadblock, it is [...]