Former Cochabamba prefect Manfred Reyes Villa is wanted by Interpol for the crime of fraud. Since late December 2009, after losing the Bolivian presidential election to incumbent Evo Morales, Reyes Villa has been living in self-imposed exile in Miami. Manfred Reyes accused Interpol of playing into the Bolivian president’s hands and called the arrest warrant [...]

Twenty eight people were killed and ten severly wounded when a bus operated by the comapny Copa Moya crashed between Tarija and Villazón yesterday. The bus crashed at 1 p.m. in the afternoon, falling off a steep escarpment in near Las Antenas en Sama. The vehicle fell some 200 meters (656 feet). Although the official [...]

General René Sanabria, 58, and one of his accomplices Juan Marcelo Foronda Azero, plead guilty yesterday to charges of dug trafficking and conspiracy in a Miami courtroom. The is scheduled to end on September 2nd. Both men plead guilty to charges of importing cocaine with the hope of receiving lesser sentences. Sanabria was the former [...]

Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala will visit La Paz today in his second tour of the region. Bolivian President Evo Morales is expected to discuss his country’s maritime claim against Chile. Bolivian communications minister Ivan Canelas confirmed that Morales will speak with Humala about the dispute regarding Bolivia’s access to the Pacific Ocean. Humala has said [...]

Scientist Rubén Marín, the acting director of the Institute of Limnology (the study of the biological, chemical, and physical features of lakes and other bodies of fresh water) at the University Mayor of San Andrés, in La Paz, said that trout farming in the lower part of Lake Titicaca, in the Bolivian sector, should be [...]

Chilean foreign minister Alfredo Moreno is asking the Bolivian government to explain why 14 soldiers illegally entered his country equipped with guns and ammunition. The incident occurred early Friday, when a police patrol in the Salar de Copaisa sector detected a vehicle carrying 10 armed soldiers. Another vehicle, carrying an additional four soldiers, was also [...]

Chilean diplomatic sources have reported that Bolivia’s maritime demand was one of the subjects addressed in a meeting between Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera in Santiago this Wednesday. The subject was addressed under the supplementary protocol of the 1929 Peace and Friendship Treaty, under which territorial changes that occurred during the [...]

In a statement made today, the Vice Minister for Health, Martín Maturano, announced that between 35% and 40% of the Yuqui community are ill with tuberculosis. He told the press: “We have a high prevalence which reaches up to 35-40% of the total population; in this sense it is a priority for us, and we [...]

Acording to Silvia Salinas, of the organization, Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (Catholics for the Right to Decide), indigenous women in Bolivia are the most likely to suffer unwanted pregnancies, due to poor education, particularly in sexual and reproductive matters. Although the country has a large number of state policies on sexual and reproductive [...]

Yesterday, at approximately 7:45pm, the public ministry ordered the arrest of Paulina Callaú Jarpa, one of the co-owners of the Málaga building in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, which collapsed on January 24, killing 15 people, including masons and construction executives. Callaú will have an arraignment either today or tomorrow, in order [...]