Bolivia News
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By AFP
Mairana -
Bolivian President Evo Morales lauded Ernesto "Che" Guevara on Monday as he led commemorations 50 years to the day since the Cuban revolutionary leader was killed by CIA-trained Bolivian troops.
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Paris -
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was not just a guerilla fighting for his ideals, he was a man "haunted by death" according to Argentine-born author and academic Marcela Iacub.
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By AFP
Paris -
On October 10, 1967 the Bolivian army presented the body of iconic Marxist guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara to journalists in a makeshift morgue in a small town.
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By AFP
Havana -
A half-century after his death, Ernesto "Che" Guevara will be remembered in ceremonies next week in Cuba and in Bolivia, whose CIA-trained troops sent shockwaves around the world when they executed the Cold War revolutionary icon in 1967.
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By AFP
Trinidad -
Bolivian police have announced the seizure of one ton of cocaine worth some $10 million and destined to be shipped to Brazil.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Scientists studying global warming recently climbed Bolivia's towering Mount Illimani and extracted samples of glacier ice packed with thousands of years of climate data.
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By AFP
La Paz -
President Evo Morales's ex-girlfriend Gabriela Zapata was sentenced to ten years prison on corruption charges on Tuesday, capping a steamy case that also involved allegations of a hidden love child.
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By AFP
Havana -
Bolivian President Evo Morales is resting after "successful" throat surgery at a Havana hospital, a spokesman said Saturday.
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Medical scientists have identified the healthiest people in the world, or at least the people with best heart health. These are the Tsimane from the forests of Bolivia.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Old files have revealed the story of a businessman hailed as the "Bolivian Schindler" for helping thousands of Jews flee to the South American country to escape the Nazis.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivia passed a controversial measure Wednesday to expand production of coca, the raw material for cocaine.Leftist president Evo Morales dismissed warnings that an increase in coca crops would fuel the illegal drug trade.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Coca farmers clashed with police Tuesday in the second straight day of violent protests in La Paz against a Morales government bill to limit legal areas of cultivation.
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La Paz -
Bolivian President Evo Morales pardoned around 1,800 prisoners on Saturday, including pregnant women, handicapped people, inmates with minor sentences and those in custody awaiting trial.
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La Paz -
The Bolivian airline that owned the airplane that crashed in Colombia, killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian football team, is fully responsible for the accident, an official said Tuesday.
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By AFP
La Paz -
The pilot in the plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia on a Bolivian charter including footballers from Brazil had not flown enough hours to pilot commercial flights, a copilot's attorney said Saturday.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivia's ruling socialist party on Saturday defied the results of a February referendum and backed President Evo Morales for a fourth term in 2019.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivia's defense minister said Friday a plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia aboard a Bolivian-registered charter plane was "murder," accusing the pilot of flying with insufficient fuel."This was definitely no accident.
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By AFP
La Paz -
A Bolivian aviation official alleged Thursday that her superiors pressured her to cover up a report she made about the flight plan of a plane that crashed killing 71 people, news media said.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivian officials arrested the head of LAMIA Airlines on Tuesday after a crash involving one of the charter firm's planes killed a Brazilian football team and dozens of others.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivia's government declared an emergency on Monday as the country suffers its worst drought in 25 years."The cabinet has approved a decree...
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La Paz -
Bolivia has detected its first three cases of microcephaly caused by the Zika virus, local media reported Wednesday, citing health authorities.
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Bolivia, which holds 20 percent of the world's tropical glaciers has seen its glaciers shrunk by 43 percent since the mid-1980s. The melting has left behind at least 25 unstable glacial lakes capable of causing sudden and catastrophic outburst floods.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Friday that his government is the victim of a "political conspiracy" after protesting miners allegedly kidnapped and beat to death a minister who tried to negotiate with them.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivian miners kidnapped, tortured and beat to death a deputy minister who tried to negotiate with protesting workers on Thursday, in what the government condemned as a brutal murder.
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La Paz -
Bolivian prosecutors said Thursday they have dropped influence-peddling charges against President Evo Morales's jailed ex-girlfriend, who is at the center of a steamy case involving allegations of corruption and a hidden love child.
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Warnes -
Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated a new "anti-imperialist" military academy Wednesday, calling it a response to the former School of the Americas, a US program that provided training to Latin American military regimes.
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La Paz -
Five tourists from Belgium, Italy and Peru were killed in a car crash at Bolivia's famous salt flats, the Salar de Uyuni, authorities said Sunday.
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Santiago -
Chile said all Bolivian government officials would need entry visas in passports to visit, amid a tense diplomatic standoff between the two neighbors.
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Santiago -
Chile on Wednesday submitted legal papers to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) seeking to slap down persistent arguments from its landlocked neighbor Bolivia for negotiations on sea access.
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La Paz -
Bolivia accused Chile of racism Tuesday in a dispute over treatment of La Paz's foreign minister, who is an Aymara Indian.
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Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia OEA - OAS
The first stage in a cable car network running from La Paz to El Alto in Bolivia has been inaugurated by President Evo Morales. Video screengrab
Evo Morales in Vienna Flickr user Sebastian Baryli
Evo Morales during a visit to val-de-Marne, May 14, 2006 Flickr user Alain Bechellier
Bolivian President Evo Morales Sebastian Baryli
The "Lion House" at the Wild Animal Sanctuary where the 25 lions rescued from Bolivia will recover until spring. The Wild Animal Santuary non-profit organization
The skyline of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Ruditaly
As a result of this pre-industrial lifestyle, the Tsimané have hardly any hardening of the arteries. By Likestofish
The "Lion House" at the Wild Animal Sanctuary where the 25 lions rescued from Bolivia will recover until spring. The Wild Animal Santuary non-profit organization
Insufficient Management: Bolivia’s Akapana Pyramid may lose its UNESCO World Heritage status due to inappropriate restoration. twiga269
The "Lion House" at the Wild Animal Sanctuary where the 25 lions rescued from Bolivia will recover until spring. The Wild Animal Santuary non-profit organization
Bus of "Trans San Bartolomé" Intercity Service fell a ravine in Bolivia. Telam
View of the downtown area of the City of Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Bolivia. Paul Richter
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