Campesinos in the Bermejo municipality of Tarija department blocked the international roadway joining Bolivia and Argentina in order to demand payment from the state’s Prosol program. The campesinos took the measure in order to pressure the governor of Tarija, Lino Condori. The head of Prosol in Bermejo, Agapo Hoyos, said that there are no resources [...]

Yesterday, students, faculty, and staff of the El Alto Public University marched from El Alto to La Paz to demand more funding. Today, the administrative management of the Bolivian road authority is demanding that rector of the school, Damaso Quispe, and four university leaders pay for damages that occurred during the march.. Forty-five people were [...]

More than one hundred elderly Bolivians blocked the only highway linking La Paz with El Alto today to demand an increase in the senior citizen payment renta Dignidad. “It’s been three years that we’ve been asking for an audience with President Evo Morales, because we’re demanding an increase in the renta Dignidad,” said the executive [...]

Juanita Ancieta, the president of the coordinating committee of the Six Federations of the Cochabamba Tropics, said yesterday that they do not agree with any ideas or plans of taxing coca production. Ancieta said that they would certainly support the Bolivian state, but just no through taxes, and that the government should look for some [...]

Bolivian Chancellor David Choquehuanca affirmed to the press on Thursday that he is pressing criminal charges against a group of indigenous women who forced him to march with them when he was sent to negotiate with them on September 24 in Yucumo. The indigenous Amazonian women were marching against a highway that the government planned [...]

Just days after a freak hailstorm that left almost two feet on hail and destroyed dozens of homes in Arque, the first tornado ever reported in Cochabamba destroyed 20 homes in Pucara on the Southern outskirts of the city. The destructive funnel sent walls, roofs, and sheet metal sailing into the air and one witness [...]

An extremely intense localized hail storm pounded 13 rural villages in the Arque region of Cochabamba, leaving over 60 centimeters (almost two feet) of hail on the ground. The Cochabamba department has declared this an emergency as reports of intense flooding, hundreds of homeless families and over 20 hectares of damaged crops emerge. The hail [...]

Fifteen minutes before the Sept. 25 police operation in which scores of indigenous marchers were brutally repressed, the then vice minister of government, Marcos Farfán, gave the authorization for the police to intervene in the march protesting the construction of a Beni-Cochabamba highway that would cut through the Tipnis ecological and indigenous reserve, according to [...]

In the department of Oruro, several civic and social organizations have begun a three-day strike a closure of national and international roads to call on the government to solve a border dispute between Quillacas, Oruro, and Coroma, Potosí, both of which are vying for an area rich in Limestone. The president of the Oruro Civic [...]

Bolivia’s Director General of Coca Control and Industrialization, Luis Cutipa, told the press that they have serious problems controlling the illegal planting and sale of coca in Bolivia- most especially in the Chaparé region of Cochabamba. Cutipa said that they only have 60 agents in the country and have a serious lack of economic resources [...]