President Evo Morales yet yesterday with the leaders of the Conisur march who want to abolish the recently passed Ley Corta, or Short Law in which the government “forever” renounced its plan to build a Brazilian-funded highway through this protected Amazonian Nationan Park and Indigenous homeland. Conisur represents 21 of the 60 mostly indigenous community [...]

Eleven Bolivians were arrested yesterday in Chile on the suspicion of trafficking black market cars over the border to Bolivia. The group had ten cars and a large truck, none of which had valid passes or registrations. The group was stopped in the small town of Cariquima in northern Chile. The elven are between the [...]

The Minister of Communication, Amanda Dávila, guaranteed on Sunday that the Publishing Tribunal and Publishing Law of 1925 will be maintained despite her governments plans to make a new communications law. “The spirit, the foundation of the Publishing Law is absolutely valid, and we will absolutely respect this,” she said. She then said that since [...]

After ten hours of dialogue, the delegation from Tarija walked out of negotiations with the representatives of Chuquisaca department and the Bolivian government, rejecting the accord that would share revenues from the Margarita gas fields between the Tarija and Chuquisaca departments. At the root of the conflict is the hiring of a U.S. company, Gaffney [...]

In a historic match, Bolivia’s Real Potosi soccer team has defeated one of the world’s best clubs, Flamengo from Brazil in the Copa Libertadores yesterday. Real Potosi will play the next round in Río de Janeiro against Olimpia (Paraguay), Emelec (Ecuador) y Lanús (Argentina) for the group 2 title. Flamengo’s Luiz Antonio started the game [...]

  The Department of La Paz’s governor César Cocarico used a strong defense to help him defeat La Paz mayor Luis Revilla 3-2 in a televised bout of fooseball that kicked off La Paz’s famous Alasitas Fair. Alasitas are miniature versions of everyday objects that many Bolivians believe can be used in rituals and sacrifices [...]

Bolivian President Evo Morales issued a decree yesterday morning that will enforce an eight-hour workday in the health sector, despite protests from health-care workers, who say that the shift from a six-hour workday would be too demanding. At a press conference, the new health minister, Juan Carlos Calvimontes, asked health-care workers to comply with the [...]

Three young Chileans were on vacation in Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca when one of them, Sergio Gachón began feeling ill. In the small town hospital they prescribed Gachón penicillin without ascertaining that Gachón had a severe penicillin allergy. Gachón died later that day in his hostel. Gachón’s family said that this was [...]

The government has signed an accord with handicapped citizens who had been marching in protest. The accord will create a commission to study whether Bolivia can afford a monthly welfare payment to handicapped individuals. The marchers are asking for Bs. 3000 per month ($428 or roughly four times Bolivia’s minimum wage). The La Paz president [...]

Bolivia’s Minister of Communication Iván Canelas, resigned from the government effective on January 20. Canelas read a letter announcing his resignation and thanking president Evo Morales for the chance to help him. “The chance of helping you in this arduous job has been an important experience in my life, however, for motives that you are [...]