Yesterday, the supreme court sentenced two ex-ministers and five military generals to between three and fifteen years in jail for the “Black October” massacre during the presidency of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (2002-2003). Sixty five people died in the massacre in which the military opened fire on unarmed protesters, also wounding over four hundred people [...]

Today ex-Brazilian President Lula Da Silva will meet with President Evo Morales to talk about important subjects such as the Brazilian-financed Amazonian highway Morales is constructing through a national park despite furious indigenous opposition. They will have dinner together and then Lula will attend an international economic forum. Lula’s visit corresponds with an indigenous march [...]

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 International Police of Peru (INTERPOL), yesterday extradited to Bolivia a Dutch man accused of murdering his wife Lucy Luisa Molina (29) and six month old baby in 2008. Prosecutor Patricia Santos said, “Van Den Berg arrived in La Paz in the morning and we will begin to press charges against him before a judge.”  [...]

President Evo Morales urged citizens of Tolata, Cochabamba yesterday to vote “yes” on October 16th to install 116 new judges selected as part of his new judicial reforms. He said they will win with, “more than 60% or 70% of the vote and with 90% to 100% in farming communities.” Morales said that Bolivians are [...]

One of Bolivia’s most famous artists, the painter Raúl Lara Tórrez, died yesterday in his home city of Oruro. Lara was 71 years old and had battled cancer for the last five years. On Lara’s request, his remains will be cremated and dispersed on Mount Tunari in Cochabamba. The mayor of Oruro bestowed Lara with [...]

President Evo Morales said that Amazonian tribesmen marching against his planned highway through their traditional jungle homelands are motivated by self interest and being used by capitalism and non-profit organizations. Morales said, “It’s a political issue fed nationally and internationally.” He then claimed that indigenous leaders of the march have made phone calls the to [...]

In the lowlands of the Santa Cruz department in Bolivia, up to 50,000 Mennonites live in reclusion, farming soybeans in the clearcut jungle and wetlands. Mennonite men are occasionally seen in the large towns and metropolitan Santa Cruz in their trademark blue overalls and button-up shirts; Mennonite women, though, are much less visible, usually having been [...]

China offered Bolivia cooperation in four areas and signed several agreements, Bolivian President Evo Morales stated yesterday after returning from the Asian country, where he visited for six days. Morales emphasized that the meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, achieved agreements for assistance in energy, minerals, infrastructure, and food security. Morales furthermore praised China [...]

Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera said that dialogue was open with indigenous groups opposing the planned superhighway through Amazonian Isiboro Sécure national park, however these same groups are threatening a march and road blocks because the dialogue has broken down. Eleven indigenous leaders from Amazonian tribes such as the Chimanes said that they continue to [...]