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Mr Morales told May Day crowds that he had ordered troops and the state oil company to take over Air BP, which supplies jet fuel across the country. He has already nationalised oil and gas reserves to redistribute wealth to Bolivia's indigenous majority.
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S President Evo Morales said police in his country have broken up a plot by foreign mercenaries to kill him, suggesting that right-wing opponents were behind it. In La Paz, Bolivian police today said three people were shot to death and two detained in...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has ended a five-day-long hunger strike after lawmakers agreed to allow him to run for a second term in December. Mercopress reported Tuesday that the new law also gives Bolivia's indigenous communities rights to territory...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales and representatives from the social sectors declared on Thursday a hunger strike to demand the approval of the new Electoral Regime to allow the advance of the elections in December 2009. "The radical opposition does...
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For the refounding of a united Bolivia," Morales said Saturday while enacting a charter that was approved by popular vote in a referendum held Jan 25. The ceremony was held in El Alto, a highland municipality near La Paz that is a bastion of support for...
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Britain's BP PLC has been the chief shareholder in Chaco.The government announced last year that it would take over Chaco and other petrochemical operations, but Avalos said Friday that negotiations on compensation have been unsuccessful.
Tags: bolivia, Evo Morales, constitution, Chaco Oil Company, Empresa Petrolera Chaco SA, Bolivian, Evo Morales, Mr Morales, BP PLC, Mr. Morales
Morales, issued an order mandating the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to abandon its work in the Andean nation in three month's time. The organization is suspected of practicing anti-government drills with outlaw groups, Prensa Latina reports.
Tags: Bolivia, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Evo Morales, Mr Morales, DEA, US Drug Enforcement Administration, coca farmers, used drug
Thousands of farmers and union members have begun marching to the administrative capital, La Paz. Mr Morales says the new constitution will give greater power to the country's majority indigenous people. Opponents, based in the gas-rich lowland provinces,...
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The Bolivian capital remained mostly quiet Monday, hours after Bolivian President Evo Morales flew to Chile for an emergency summit on violence that has killed 30 people last week. Morales was scheduled to return to the Andean nation Monday night to...
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A political crisis in Bolivia was Friday moving towards confrontation after President Evo Morales announced a referendum on a new, socialist constitution in the teeth of fierce opposition from rebel conservative governors. Morales, the first indigenous...
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