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The government has seized a 12,500-hectare (48-square-mile) ranch in Bolivia's eastern lowlands from a soybean magnate who is among the chief political rivals of just re-elected President Evo Morales.
President Evo Morales easily won re-election, according to unofficial results, getting an overwhelming mandate for further revolutionary change on behalf of Bolivia's long-suppressed indigenous majority.
Bolivia welcomes foreign investment in its energy and natural resource sectors but without foreign companies acting as owners, President Evo Morales said Monday.
President Evo Morales says Bolivia has decided to buy a presidential plane from Russia after Moscow offered to set up an aircraft maintenance center in the South American nation.
President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America's historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in annual trade benefits for Bolivia.
In stories May 11 and May 12 about Peru granting asylum to two Bolivian officials, The Associated Press erroneously reported that genocide charges were not filed against former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and members of his cabinet until after Evo Morales became president in 2006. Bolivia's congress ratified charges against Sanchez de Lozada and the cabinet members in 2004, and prosecutors added five former senior military officials as defendants after Morales' inauguration.
President Evo Morales called for an about-face in relations with Washington on Thursday, saying past diplomatic spats can be overcome if the new U.S. government refrains from meddling in Bolivian affairs.
Bolivia demanded Monday that Peru hand over three former government ministers charged with genocide in the 2003 killing of dozens of protesters, and President Evo Morales called asylum an "open provocation of the Bolivian people."
Opposition leaders reacted angrily Tuesday after a Bolivian prosecutor accused several of them of backing alleged mercenaries who leftist President Evo Morales says were plotting to assassinate him.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Bolivia's Evo Morales said Saturday they hope their countries are on the road to repairing badly strained relations.
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday rejected requests from the governments of Ireland, Croatia and Hungary seeking information about the deaths of three of their citizens whom Bolivia accuses of plotting to assassinate Morales.
Hungary's government said Tuesday there is no credible evidence so far that a group made up of Hungarians and other Europeans plotted to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales.
Bolivian officials were investigating Friday who financed a plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and what an international group of alleged mercenaries — including two fighters from the Balkan wars — were doing in Bolivia.
President Evo Morales ended a five-day hunger strike Tuesday after Bolivia's congress broke a political deadlock, approving a law that lets him run for re-election in December.
President Evo Morales asked large landowners to voluntarily relinquish some of their holdings to poor Indians during a ceremony held Saturday on property confiscated from a U.S. rancher for redistribution.
Bolivian President Evo Morales is once again accusing the CIA of meddling in internal affairs.
President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, further straining tense relations six months after he expelled the American ambassador.
Bolivian President Evo Morales called Tuesday on the French energy giant Total to step up investments in his gas-rich Andean country, threatening unspecified action if the company fails to live up to its contractual obligations.
President Evo Morales and thousands of supporters celebrated Bolivia's new constitution as it took effect on Saturday, saying the new document will enshrine indigenous rights and end centuries of oppression.
The social-networking site Facebook removed a group on Tuesday whose title advocated raising money so a gunman could be hired to "liquidate" Bolivia's leftist president, Evo Morales.
Key elements of the new constitution proposed by Bolivian President Evo Morales:
Bolivian election authorities say the nation's new constitution won 61.5 percent support in a recent referendum, with only a handful of ballots left to count.
The top U.S. diplomat in Bolivia has left a speech by President Evo Morales after the leftist leader said Washington is plotting against his government.
President Evo Morales has complained about the news in Bolivia's local newspapers. So his government began publishing its own on Thursday.
In Bolivia, a force for change enduresThe slogans and posters of Che Guevara notwithstanding, this is not Havana circa 1969, nor Managua, 1979.
Bolivian Indians in historic stepBolivia has become the first country in the history of South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
Honduras Coup D'etatIf this coup d'état works, it will serve as a threatening signal to Latin America that the old days of military dictatorship are back. Already there are frictions between the army and the heads of state in Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina.
Evo Morales: Ten Commandments To Save the PlanetI like these ten commandments.
Hungarians Irish Croat Colombo-Bolivians Romanians Die in Plot to Kill Bolivian President!!Holy @!$%#!! Update 1: Wait, it wasn't three Hungarians, it was "a Bolivian with a Hungarian and a Colombian." Update 2: Wait, Evo is saying "They are foreign mercenaries -- they are Irish, Hungarians and of course there are no Bolivians." Of course. Also:
Bolivia's Morales to keep up hunger strike protestBolivian President Evo Morales vowed on Sunday to continue a hunger strike now three days old until opposition lawmakers approve an electoral law seen helping allies of the former coca farmer in a December vote.
Bolivian leader on hunger strike -- Evo Morales refuses to eat until upper house passes new electoral law. Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he will refuse to eat until the upper house of parliament, the Senate, passes a new electoral law.
A gathering of the global counter-culture: Dear capitalists, admit you got it wrongBuoyed up by a crisis and with five presidents in attendance, the international left has ideas for fixing the world that a neoliberal might recognise
DEA presence ends in BoliviaThe last U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents left Bolivia on Thursday after having been ordered out by President Evo Morales, even as Bolivian police report that coca cultivation and cocaine processing are on the rise.
Bolivian vote for New Constitution todayIn October, Bolivia's Congress approved a draft constitution that will go to a nation-wide referendum on January 25, 2008.
Evo Morales condemns Bush government decision against Bolivia[Excerpt:] - LA PAZ - Bolivian President Evo Morales today described as "political revenge" the US government's decision to exclude his country from unilaterally conditioned tariff benefits related to combating drug trafficking.
Bolivia Calls U.S. Trade Move "Political Vengeance" Bolivian President Evo Morales accused the United States on Thursday of "political vengeance" for suspending the Andean nation's special trade benefits on grounds that it has not cooperated in fighting drugs.
Roger Burbach: Orchestrating a Civic Coup in BoliviaEvo Morales is the latest democratically-elected Latin American president to be the target of a US plot to destabilize and overthrow his government.
Bolivia Gives US Anti-Drug Team Three Months To LeaveMorales said DEA agents had been "conducting political espionage to fund criminal groups" who aimed at "attacks on the lives of (government) officials, and the president himself."
Washington imposes sanctions on BoliviaThe Bush administration has imposed fresh sanctions on Bolivia in retaliation for the decision of the country's president Evo Morales to expel the US ambasssador and close down US programs in the country.
Latin America leftists slam U.S. on financial crisisLatin America's socialist leaders accused the United States on Tuesday of "irresponsibility" in its handling of a financial crisis that has dried up credit markets and threatens economies around the world.
An Open Letter to the U.S. State Department Regarding Recent Violence in BoliviaDear Dr. Rice,
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Troops arrest Bolivian governorAs civil unrest continues an opposition governor in a northern Bolivian province is arrested for allegedly backing violence in his province of Pando. There some 16 people have died and, according to the Efe news agency out of La Paz, some 100 people have gone missing.
Bolivia's president: Unrest an attempted coupSouth America's presidents converged on Chile for an emergency summit Monday aimed at preventing the collapse of Bolivia, whose leftist president has lost control of about half the country and said bloody unrest there amounts to an attempted coup.
Bolivia's president: Unrest an attempted coupSouth America's presidents converged on Chile for an emergency summit Monday aimed at preventing the collapse of Bolivia, whose leftist president has lost control of about half the country and said bloody unrest there amounts to an attempted coup.
At Least 28 Killed in Bolivia Unrestin Bolivia say at least 28 people were killed in last week's fighting between government and opposition supporters.
Bolivia appeals for end to unrestBolivia's government has appealed for calm after violent unrest prompted President Evo Morales to declare martial law in the region of Pando.
Bolivian opposition agrees to talks with MoralesBolivians overwhelmingly backed Morales in the referendum, reaffirming his mandate to upend historical inequalities and empower the country's poor Indian majority. Two opposition politicians were among three governors ousted.
Unofficial results: Morales keeps job in BoliviaVoters strongly reaffirmed their faith in President Evo Morales on Sunday in a recall referendum that the Bolivian leader devised to try to break a political stalemate in the bitterly divided Andean nation, partial unofficial results showed.
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