The latest in Bolivia

Bolivia jailer ousted over favors for ex-dictator

2010-03-16T08:05:22Z

<div id="subtitle">Bolivia fires prison chief over favors for convicted ex-dictator</div><div><p>Bolivian officials say they have fired a prison director who let a convicted former dictator turn cells into a luxury apartment.</p><p>Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti says Col. Gilmar Oblitas and othe...

A 13,000-mile drive south: NYC to Argentina

2010-03-16T07:00:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Driving the Americas on a trip around the world: 4 months, 13,000 miles, NY to Buenos Aires</div><div><p>It was just like driving to work, except that I kept on going: From New York to Argentina, through 12 countries, for four months and more than 13,000 miles.</p><p>It's the first leg of m...

Bolivia drops bid to host Miss Universe contest

2010-03-15T04:30:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Bolivia says it can't afford to host Miss Universe pageant, drops bid</div><div><p>Bolivia is dropping its bid to host the Miss Universe pageant because it would cost more than anticipated.</p><p>President Evo Morales has lobbied foreign leaders to help him bring the glamorous contest t...

Bolivia tackles gender equality in government

2010-03-02T14:34:44Z

<div id="subtitle">Bolivia's president appoints women to half of Cabinet posts</div><div><p>After reinventing Bolivia's government to reflect the country's multi-ethnic, Indian majority, President Evo Morales is championing gender parity at the highest levels of government.</p><p>Women now account for half of Bolivia's Cabinet ministers — 10 out of 20 — as Moral...

Mexican drug lords face 'existential threat,' US says

2010-03-01T16:15:56Z

<div><p>Powerful Mexican drug cartels are facing their first-ever "existential threat" thanks to a nationwide clampdown by government troops and police, the neighboring United States said Monday.</p><p>Mexican President Felipe Calderon deployed tens of thousands of soldiers to take on drug gangs after he took office in late 2006, but the government crack...

US aims to shift strategy to combat Afghan opium

2010-03-01T13:16:03Z

<div><p>The United States is shifting its strategy on opium production in Afghanistan from eradication of crops to a broader focus involving interdiction and alternative agriculture, an official said Monday.</p><p>The shift seeks "to move away from our focus on eradication" to law enforcement and efforts to "develop fully alternative livelihoods with a very stro...

Coeur d'Alene 2009 production jumps on new mines

2010-02-25T13:00:27Z

<div id="subtitle">Coeur d'Alene 2009 silver, gold production surge as Bolivia, Mexico mines come on line</div><div><p>Silver miner and gold producer Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. said Thursday it produced 47 percent more silver in 2009 a...

Bolivia banks on 'Coca Colla,' fizzy coca-leaf drink

2010-02-22T22:32:38Z

<div><p>President Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous leader known for chewing coca leaves at UN meetings, is making a fresh push for the plant, this time in the form of the soft drink "Coca Colla."</p><p>Intended to rival its more famous Bolivia creates space program to build, launch 1st satellite from poor South American country</div><div><p>Bolivia says it has created a space agency to build and launch the poor South American country's first satellite.</p><p>Public Works Minister Walter Delgadillo Terc...

Bolivia Elections

2010-02-09T19:01:22Z

Felix Patzi, candidate for governor of the La Paz department, top center, makes 1,000 bricks as his punishment after pleading guilty to drinking and driving in Patacamaya in Bolivia's La Paz department, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Patzi served as education minister during the first term of Bolivia's President...

Bolivian candidate sentenced to make adobe bricks

2010-02-22T10:27:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Bolivian candidate makes adobe bricks as part of community sentence for drunk driving</div><div><p>A governing party candidate in Bolivia is making 1,000 adobe bricks as part of a drunk-driving sentence handed down under the community justice system backed by the country's pro-indigenous government.</p><p>Felix Patzi, an Aymara Indian who was runnin...

Bolivia expects 5,000 foreigners at climate forum

2010-02-22T10:41:19Z

<div id="subtitle">Bolivia expecting 5,000 foreign activists at its alternative conference on climate change</div><div><p>Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change.</p><p>Bolivia's foreign minister, Evo Morales has decreed Jan. 22 a national holiday. That's the date last week when he announced the end of colonialism and the emergence of an ethnically inclusive republic.&...

Bolivia Inauguration

2010-01-22T16:30:25Z

Spain's Prince Felipe, front right, review the troops upon his arrival to El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Prince Felipe will be attending the inauguration of Bolivia's President Evo Morales' second term, scheduled for Friday. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Bolivia's Morales sworn in to term No. 2

2010-02-22T16:16:03Z

<div id="subtitle">In Bolivia, Morales starts 2nd term by declaring colonialism dead</div><div><p>Evo Morales has begun a second term as Bolivia's president by declaring colonialism dead in the Andean nation.</p><p>The Aymara Indian was sworn in wearing a sash on which traditional national figures were replaced by ...

Bolivia's anti-US president sworn in for new term

2010-02-22T16:29:10Z

<div><p> Bolivian President Evo Morales was sworn in for a second, five-year term on Friday in a ceremony attended by fellow Latin American leftist leaders including his role model, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.</p><p>Morales, 50, was taking up the new mandate with almost unlimited power after last year changing

Bolivia's president gets sworn in for new term

2010-02-22T16:30:33Z

<div><p>Bolivian President Evo Morales was to be sworn in for a second, five-year term on Friday in a ceremony attended by fellow Latin American leftist leaders including his role model, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.</p><p>Morales, 50, was taking up the new mandate with almost unlimited power after last year changing

Bolivia demands access to Pacific Ocean: Arica tunnel

2010-02-23T01:40:23Z

<div><p>SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Three Chilean architects proposed a plan on Friday to expand sea access for Bolivia, which has been landlocked for more than a century, by constructing a tunnel that will run through Chile's first region in Arica.</p><p>Sea access has been a major issue for Bol...

Bolivia Indian Serfdom

2010-01-02T21:15:52Z

FILE - This Nov. 28, 2006 file photo shows a protester tied to a rope and a chain as a symbolic protest against the working conditions of the indigenous Guarani people, during a rally demanding land reform in La Paz, Bolivia. Bolivia already has made giants steps toward ending a centuries-old legacy of mistreatment of its third-largest ethnic group by white overlords. But for now, several thousand Guarani l...