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BOLIVIA: The Story Behind Gas Nationalisation
"If you agree, sign the decree!" Bolivian President Evo Morales told his ministers on the morning of May 1, as he got ready to announce the renationalisation of an industry that will move 200 billion dollars over the next two decades in South America's poorest country.BOLIVIA: The Story Behind Gas Nationalisation
"If you agree, sign the decree!" Bolivian President Evo Morales told his ministers on the morning of May 1, as he got ready to announce the renationalisation of an industry that will move 200 billion dollars over the next two decades in South America's poorest country.ENERGY-BOLIVIA: Morales Plays Hardball
Passersby continued to gawk with surprise Tuesday at signs tacked up at the petrol stations run by Brazilian oil giant Petrobras in Bolivia. The signs read "nationalised" and bore the logo of the badly weakened Bolivian state-owned oil company YPFB.ECONOMY-BOLIVIA: Morales to Shake Free of IMF Yoke
After two decades as one of the IMF's most dedicated pupils, Bolivia is now preparing to follow in the footsteps of Argentina and Brazil, and free itself of the corset imposed by the multilateral lender.BOLIVIA: Indigenous Majority Won Struggle for New Constitution
The roots of the process that will lead to the July election of a constituent assembly to rewrite Bolivia's constitution can be traced back to a 700-km 1990 march through Amazon rainforest and over the mountains surrounding the capital by indigenous people demanding respect for their rights over their land.BOLIVIA: Government Takes Up Challenge of Land Reform
The Bolivian government of Evo Morales plans to strengthen and speed up agrarian reform, to reduce the heavy concentration of land ownership, and to combat speculation and illegal sales of land along the border to foreign nationals.BOLIVIA-US: Morales Treads Fine Line on Coca
Bolivian President Evo Morales is taking a conciliatory tone in his relations with the United States, in order to keep U.S. aid flowing. Nevertheless, the radically different views that the two governments hold on the eradication of coca anticipate a tense relationship.BOLIVIA: First Challenges for New President
An indefinite strike at Bolivia's flagship airline and a police rebellion were the first substantial challenges faced by Bolivian President Evo Morales, who took office just two weeks ago.BOLIVIA: Indigenous Leaders, Women Head New Cabinet
Reforms to Bolivia's current "neoliberal" free-market policies and the fight against corruption and red tape announced by incoming President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, were put in the hands of a cabinet made up largely of indigenous people, trade unionists and women.BOLIVIA: Morales Predicts 500 Years of Indigenous Rule
With his left fist in the air and his right hand on his chest, Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, promised to recuperate the country's natural resources and to undertake drastic measures to uproot corruption in order to "save" Bolivia.BOLIVIA: Morales – ‘Condor’ in Tiwanaku, President in La Paz
With an Aymara ritual, an official ceremony and a mass celebration, Bolivia will see its first indigenous president, Evo Morales, take office this weekend, with around 10 Latin American presidents in attendance.BOLIVIA: President-Elect Between a Rock and a Hard Place
With less than two weeks to go before he takes office as Bolivia's first indigenous president, Evo Morales is already facing the dilemma of how to satisfy voters wooed by his talk of nationalising the country's natural gas resources while calming investors with a more flexible policy on foreign capital.DRUGS-BOLIVIA: A New Future for Coca Leaf
Criminalised in the international sphere, uprooted by hoe and machete in Bolivia, but venerated by Andean indigenous cultures, the coca leaf will seek a new future under the country's first indigenous president, the leader of the coca growers Evo Morales, who takes office on Jan. 22.BOLIVIA: Morales Will Need to Forge Alliances
Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales will need to forge agreements with part of the opposition in Congress, set forth a timetable for pushing through actual reforms, and carefully handle the differences within his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) if he wants to overcome the severe political instability and social problems afflicting this Andean nation, say observers.ELECTIONS-BOLIVIA: Quiroga Offers Continuity
From 2001 to 2002, Jorge Quiroga took over the presidency of Bolivia from ex-dictator Hugo Banzer. But now he's aiming at getting elected on his own merit, while promising to give continuity to the current economic model, strengthen ties with the United States and toughen the country's anti-drug policies.BOLIVIA: Will Morales Become First Indigenous President?
The growing number of Bolivians excluded from the formal economy over the past two decades may soon be represented at the highest level of government by Evo Morales, the indigenous candidate who is leading the polls for Sunday's elections.BOLIVIA: Morales Has Pre-Poll Lead, But Outcome Still Unclear
With less than two weeks to go to Bolivia's elections, the two presidential candidates leading the polls, Evo Morales and Jorge Quiroga, are frantically attempting to capture the 13 percent of voters who are still undecided.RIGHTS-BOLIVIA: Vigilante Justice – Burning Injustice
Lynch mobs taking justice into their own hands have become more and more common in Bolivia, where people are frustrated and furious with the slow pace of justice and an ineffective judicial system.BOLIVIA: Information Highway Blocked by Rural Poverty, Underdevelopment
The proliferation of cybercafés in Bolivia's largest cities, offering Internet access at relatively modest rates, contrasts sharply with the slow advance of this technology in rural areas, which depends on sporadic initiatives headed up by the private sector or civil society.RIGHTS-BOLIVIA: International Crusade for Justice
"The machine guns have cut down the bodies of our relatives, and we want the impunity to be punished," said a resolute Néstor Salinas, whose brother was among the roughly 70 people killed in a brutal crackdown on the protests known as the "gas war" in Bolivia two years ago.BOLIVIA: Fighting Disaster on Two Fronts
Forest fires that have already devastated 800,000 hectares of Amazon jungle and grassland in northern Bolivia, along with heavy snowfall and intense cold in the Andean highlands in the south, forced the government to declare vast extensions of the country a disaster zone.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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