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Bolivia Bus Accident Leaves 8 Dead, 20 Injured
October 30, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Eight people were killed and more than 20 others injured Monday when a bus smashed into a large outcropping of rock in southern Bolivia, police said. continue reading »
Bolivian President Thanks Queen Sofia For Spanish Aid in Education, Health
October 18, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday thanked Spain's Queen Sofia for Madrid's help in improving health and education in Bolivia, expressed confidence that this would continue in the future and reconfirmed that he will attend the Ibero-American Summit in Cadiz, which will be held in mid-November. continue reading »
2 Die in Shootout between Drug Traffickers, Police in Bolivia
October 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Two people were killed in Bolivia's Santa Cruz region, which borders Brazil and Paraguay, in a shootout involving suspected drug traffickers and police officers who allegedly kidnapped one of the criminals, officials said. continue reading »
Bolivian Miners Fighting Each Other Over Control of Colquiri Mine
October 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Bolivian mining groups that are facing off over control of the Andean Colquiri mine came to blows and hurled stones at one another when those working for private cooperatives returned to the same-named town, officials said. continue reading »
Bolivian Miners and Colquiri Mining Company Reach Agreement
September 30, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The groups of Bolivian miners vying for control of the Andean Colquiri mine reached an agreement that resolves their conflict by arriving at a division of its richest ore vein, Government Minister Carlos Romero said Sunday. continue reading »
Bolivian Police Kill 2 Men Guarding Cocaine Lab in Clash
September 20, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Two men guarding a cocaine lab in the eastern Bolivian province of Santa Cruz died in a confrontation with police, official news agency ABI said. continue reading »
Vice President of Bolivia Marries in Traditional Indian Ceremony at Temples of Tiahuanaco
September 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and journalist Claudia Fernandez married one another in an unannounced ceremony that included indigenous rites at an open-air temple in the pre-Columbian citadel of Tiahuanaco held prior to the Catholic and civil ceremonies on Sunday. continue reading »
Another Deadly Accident on Bolivia’s “Highway of Death” Leaves 6 Dead, 30 Injured
September 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
At least six people were killed and more than 30 others injured when a bus plunged into a ravine on the so-called "highway of death" in Bolivia's Los Yungas region, police said. continue reading »
Bolivian Border Town Receives Extra Security After Mob Kills Brazilians Accused of Murder
August 18, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Soldiers and additional police have been deployed in the border town where two Brazilians accused of murdering three local residents were lynched earlier this week, the Bolivian government said Friday. continue reading »
PARADOX: Bolivia Has Less Coca Plantations but Producing More Cocaine
July 16, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The U.S. government confirmed that Bolivia has fewer coca plantations but it is producing more cocaine because drug traffickers are using a more "efficient" process known as the "Colombian method," according to an interview published Sunday in the daily Pagina Siete. continue reading »
Mob Storms Bolivia Jail and Lynches Murder Suspect
May 29, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
An angry mob stormed a jail and lynched a prisoner accused of murdering a man and wounding his wife in a town in the Bolivian region of Santa Cruz, which borders on Brazil and Paraguay, prosecutor Lucio Hinojosa told Efe on Monday. continue reading »
Latin American Amazon Tribes Give Clue to Heart-Healthy Lifestyles
May 28, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Investigating indigenous Amazonian or African peoples who still follow a hunter-gatherer or forager-horticulturist lifestyle is giving new insights into how diet and lifestyle affect the heart as humans age. continue reading »
US Citizen on Hunger Strike in Bolivian Prison
May 15, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The attorney for a 53-year-old American man who is on hunger strike in the Bolivian prison where he has been held for 11 months without formal charges said that he sent a complaint to the U.S. Embassy in La Paz because of the scant progress being made on his case. continue reading »
Spanish Company and Gov’t Expect Compensation From Bolivia
May 2, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Spanish government and Spain-based power utility Red Electrica de España say they expect President Evo Morales' administration will provide fair compensation for the REE unit nationalized by Bolivia, a move officials in Madrid say is not linked to Argentina's expropriation of oil firm YPF. continue reading »
Bolivia’s Evo Morales Released from Hospital, Resumes Presidential Duties
March 4, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Bolivian President Evo Morales on the weekend left the hospital in the central city of Cochabamba where he had been admitted suddenly 24 hours earlier, and specialists attending him said that he is in "very good health," the government-run media reported Sunday. continue reading »
Amnesty International: Violence Against Disabled Protesters in Bolivia Must be Investigated
February 26, 2012 | by Amnesty International | Latino Daily News
Bolivia’s authorities must initiate a prompt, full and independent investigation into reports that police used excessive force against people with disabilities during a demonstration in La Paz on Thursday, Amnesty International said. continue reading »
McDonald’s Closes All Their Restaurants in Bolivia
December 22, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
UPDATE: HS News -Bolivia became the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation nearly a decade ago, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’ And that fact is still making news. continue reading »
Drunk Bolivian Teenager Killed By Flesh-Eating River Piranhas
December 7, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
An unnamed 18-year-old fisherman was reportedly drunk when he jumped out of a canoe, and into the piranha infested Yata river. continue reading »
More Than 3,500 Children Work to Support Families in Bolivia
November 30, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Bolivian families of low income force many children to work as a shoeshine, peddlers, window washers, carters. continue reading »
Bolivian Narcos Dig Up Dead Narco Mule to Extract Cocaine Cargo
November 22, 2011 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A 55 year old man who had died in May got dug up recently, his insides dissected and spilled on the ground as narcos exhumed his body to retrieve the cocaine cargo in his belly. continue reading »
