Home » Topics » president evo morales
Bolivians stage miniature festival in tribute to god of abundance
Bolivia is throwing a little party. Literally. It’s a yearly festival in which street vendors hawk everything miniature — from houses to clothes to passports — for small bills of fake money. The old month-long fair that started Thursday is called ‘Alasita,’ which means ‘buy me’ in the indigenous Aymara…
Bolivian government to consult with Amazon natives on controversial highway
LA PAZ — The Bolivian government of President Evo Morales Sunday met with indigenous Amazon basin lowland residents to discuss plans for a controversial highway that would run through their their homeland. Angry protests last year by indigenous residents of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (called TIPNIS),…
Bolivia’s president talks of nationalizing all natural resources
TIQUIPAYA, Bolivia — Bolivia’s leftist President Evo Morales, who has nationalized some utility companies, raised the possibility Sunday of making all natural resource-related industries property of the state. “Another policy ought to be how we recover, or nationalize, all natural resources, so they are in the people’s hands under state…
Bolivia nationalization hurts investment climate: U.S.
WASHINGTON — The United States voiced concern Wednesday after Bolivia nationalized Spanish firm Red Electrica’s local grid, saying it will damage the country’s investment climate. Bolivian President Evo Morales’s seizure of the Red Electrica subsidiary came just 15 days after Argentina’s much larger expropriation of Spanish oil giant Repsol’s YPF…
Bolivia cancels controversial Amazon highway
LA PAZ — Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday he was scrapping a hugely controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests. Morales told reporters he had sent an amendment to Congress, controlled by government supporters, halting plans for the road through…
Brand new on Raw Story
- Samurai sword-wielding homeowner kills armed robber in California
- Denmark wins Eurovision Song Contest
- Researcher: Owning a gun for safety like hiding from lightning under a tree
- Gay and lesbian couples push for same-sex marriage in Venezuela
- Right-wing radio host: I want to shoot Clinton right in the vagina
- Fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published
- Human tissue cloning could treat heart disease or Parkinson’s disease
- Noam Chomsky: Obama was willing to start nuclear war to kill bin Laden
- Psychologists find being positioned above others buffers against effects of ostracization
- Democrat tears into GOP for politicizing IRS hearing and encouraging ‘pollution of our democracy’
Commentary
Stop whining about Millennials
By Pando Daily
Six ways the GOP could screw up the Obama administration’s scandals
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
