Soldiers guarded natural gas fields and refineries across Bolivia after President Evo Morales ordered the sector nationalised, threatening to evict foreign companies unless they cede control over production within six months. Reconquering ownership of Bolivia’s natural resources, he said, is ”a fundamental means for recovering our sovereignty”.
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/ 21 December 2005
Bolivia’s future president Evo Morales, a coca producer under pressure to crack down on cocaine, has pledged to keep controls on coca but says he will study expanding the area where it can be legally grown. Morales on Tuesday also called on the United States to work with him to develop better ways of ending drug trafficking.
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/ 19 December 2005
Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president-elect, wears sneakers but never a jacket and tie. And that is not the only aspect about the fiery left-winger that is going to shock the world. Bolivia’s first native Indian president, who is simply known as ”Evo” across the country, wants to rein-in United States influence and end restrictions on the coca crop that he made his life from before entering politics.
It’s the dream of all naturalists: immortalising themselves by naming a new animal or plant species they have discovered. But scientists Robert Wallace and Humberto Gomez of the United States Wildlife Conservation Society have decided to carry out an internet sale to auction off the rights to name a monkey species the two men recently discovered in Bolivia.
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/ 14 October 2003
Tanks and armoured vehicles took up positions in La Paz early on Tuesday after thousands took to the streets demanding the resignation of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who postponed under pressure plans to build a controversial pipeline to export natural gas through Chile.