International Business News - Bolivia http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif A Venezuelan military helicopter often used to transport Bolivian President Evo Morales crashed in central Bolivia, but Morales was not aboard and is safe, Bolivia's defense minister said Monday. Four Venezuelan military personnel and a Bolivian officer were reported killed. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95186-bolivia-helicopter-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/military-helicopter-crashes-in-bolivia.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/military-helicopter-crashes-in-bolivia.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:17:45 EDT Bolivia's president is seeking to nationalize two of his country's biggest private pension funds, which manage assets worth more than $3 billion. A bill that President Evo Morales plans to send to Congress this week would put Bolivian pensions under control of an "autonomous and decentralized" agency, eliminating private funds administered by Swiss group Zurich Financial Services and leading Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/bolivia-wants-pension-funds-nationalized.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:55:14 EDT Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/food-rise-has-bolivias-coca-farmers-planting-rice.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:50:13 EDT Soaring food prices may achieve what the United States has spent millions of dollars trying to do: persuade Bolivian farmers to sow their fields with less potent crops than cocaine's raw ingredient. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94448-bolivia-coca-to-rice.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/food-rise-has-bolivias-coca-farmers-planting-rice.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/food-rise-has-bolivias-coca-farmers-planting-rice.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:15:42 EDT Peru's president said Tuesday that he's sick of Bolivian President Evo Morales criticizing Peru's trade pact with the United States, spreading false rumors about American military bases and urging Peruvians to protest in the street. Things really got unneighborly when Morales called Garcia "fat." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/peru-bolivia-leaders-not-so-neighborly.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:34:14 EDT Natural gas-rich Tarija became the fourth Bolivian state to declare autonomy from the government of leftist President Evo Morales when voters backed greater independence in a referendum, according to two unofficial private projections. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/bolivian-energy-rich-state-backs-greater-autonomy.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:19:28 EDT Natural gas-rich Tarija became the fourth Bolivian state to declare autonomy from the government of leftist President Evo Morales on Sunday when voters backed greater independence in a referendum, according to two unofficial private projections. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77281-bolivia-referendum.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/4th-bolivian-state-moves-toward-autonomy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/4th-bolivian-state-moves-toward-autonomy.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:11:08 EDT Bolivian officials said Friday they have arrested two men who may have planned to kill President Evo Morales. But a local prosecutor quickly released them. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/assassination-plot-suspected-in-bolivia.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:35:23 EDT Bolivian President Evo Morales is stepping down as leader of the powerful coca growers' union that launched his political career. Morales told reporters Thursday he will resign as chief of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba next month to make way for new leadership. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/bolivias-morales-to-quit-coca-union-job.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:47:14 EDT President Evo Morales is creating a Cabinet-level ministry to defend Bolivia in legal battles over his nationalizations of foreign-owned companies. Morales said late Thursday that the ministry would "assume an enormous responsibility" in helping the state reclaim petroleum, mining, telecommunications and other industries privatized during the 1990s. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/bolivia-creates-post-to-defend-nationalizations.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:40:51 EDT Bolivia's government says it will pay $240 million to Royal Dutch Shell and Ashmore Energy International for their shares in nationalized gas pipeline company Transredes. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/bolivia-240-million-for-transredes.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:12:40 EDT President Evo Morales signed a decree nationalizing all assets of gas pipeline company Transredes on Monday, saying the foreign companies that owned half of it had been too slow in negotiating. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080602/bolivia-takes-full-control-of-transredes.htm Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:49:17 EDT Bolivians in two opposition-controlled states voted overwhelmingly Sunday for autonomy measures that aim to shield the country's remote Amazon basin from President Evo Morales' leftist reforms. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/60437-bolivia-autonomy-vote.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080601/2-bolivian-states-vote-for-autonomy.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080601/2-bolivian-states-vote-for-autonomy.htm Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:23:01 EDT President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader's favor. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45635-bolivia-morales-recall.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/bolivias-morales-approves-august-recall-vote.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/bolivias-morales-approves-august-recall-vote.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 15:58:28 EDT President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will a survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader's favor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/president-morales-sets-date-of-bolivia-recall-vote.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 14:47:00 EDT President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine state governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that citizens will endorse his populist reforms halfway through his five-year term. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45595-bolivia-morales-recall.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/morales-sets-date-of-bolivia-recall-vote.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/morales-sets-date-of-bolivia-recall-vote.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 13:18:44 EDT President Evo Morales has approved an Aug. 10 recall election for himself and Bolivia's nine governors, gambling that voters will re-elect him just two years into his five-year term. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080512/president-morales-approves-bolivia-recall-vote.htm Mon, 12 May 2008 12:45:55 EDT President Evo Morales agreed Thursday to stand for election in a nationwide recall vote, gambling that Bolivians will re-elect him after just two years in office. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44951-nicaragua-food-summit.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/president-morales-agrees-to-bolivian-recall-vote.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/president-morales-agrees-to-bolivian-recall-vote.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 22:52:24 EDT President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela will not tolerate a movement for secession in Bolivia's eastern lowland states. Chavez says his government has not meddled in the domestic affairs of other Latin American nations, but would if Bolivian states now seeking greater autonomy from Bolivia's central government push for total independence. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/chavez-venezuela-wont-tolerate-secession-in-bolivia.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 21:19:34 EDT A vote for autonomy in Bolivia's richest state passed overwhelmingly, but opponents claim that absenteeism undermined the mandate of the movement to loosen ties with leftist President Evo Morales' central government. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44046-aptopix-bolivia-autonomy.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080505/bolivian-vote-presents-challenge-to-morales-populist-agenda.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080505/bolivian-vote-presents-challenge-to-morales-populist-agenda.htm Mon, 05 May 2008 12:10:41 EDT