Bolivian golfer José Luis Montaño Jr. currently leads the youth golf “Copa Los Andes” being held in the Asunción, Paraguay Golf Club. Montaño is ahead of the best youth golfers from Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and other South American countries as the tournament enters its last day today. He leads with 150 strokes to Colombian Mauricio [...]

Yesterday, the Bolivian National Load Dispatch (CNDC), the state entity responsible for the nation’s energy grid, ordered distribution companies and large businesses to ration power, which had the immediate repercussions of blackouts in Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro, Potosí, and Sucre. In a announcement to the entire nation, the CNDC reported that the determination [...]

The national 24-hour strike by the COB, Bolivia’s largest labor union, in support of the Tipnis indigenous protestors, partially started today, although the main capitals of the scity have not yet began to feel its effect. Union workers said that it the strike will apply more pressure throughout the morning. The executive secretary of the [...]

Bolivian government minister Sacha Llorenti said that neither he nor President Evo Morales ordered the police intervention on the indigenous marchers that occurred this Sunday in San Miguel de Chaparina. According to Llorenti, the order was given by Marcos Farfán, who today resigned from his position as deputy minister of government. He will be investigated [...]

President Morales announced last night that he is temporarily suspending work on the contested section II of the Amazonian highway for a “national debate” over the route of the road through the Isiboro Securé National Park. Indigenous leaders were angered by this measure, saying that they do not want the road to pass through any [...]

Bolivian defense minister Cecilia Chacón resigned today in protest of the government’s handling of ongoing indigenous protests. “I make this decision because I do not agree with the means of intervening in the marches that the government taken, and I cannot defend or justify it,” Chacón said in her letter of resignation, which was sent [...]

Yesterday police attacked the group of indigenous marchers, firing tear gas into the crowd and beating people with their batons. The police stated that their own safety was at stake because the marchers had threatened them with bows and arrows. An infant baby of three months is reported to have died from tear gas inhalation. [...]

The march of indigenous Amazonian protestors finally broke through a police blockade yesterday by taking Bolivia’s foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, hostage. Four injuries among the police were reported and it is not known if any marchers were injured. The marchers released Choquehuanca after two hours and continued on with their traditional bows and arrows. The [...]

In Cochabamba every month on average 48 children are reported missing according the the Human Trafficking division of the Bolivian police unit FELCC. In the nine months of 2011, 437 were reported missing in Cochabamba alone according the Human Trafficking director Rocío Rivas. The majority of these cases involve girls between the ages of 12 [...]

In an interview with the Telesur television network, Bolivian President Evo Morales said that the Transitional Council of Libya causes insecurities for countries becuase it arose from a coup d’état against the government of Muammar Gaddafi. Because of this, Morales said that Bolivia will not recognize that body as the government of Libya. “It is [...]