BOLIVIA

Bolivia reports 107 arrests for hydrocarbon smuggling

Published on: June 2, 2025
08:08

La Paz, June 2 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian authorities seized more than 120,000 liters of fuel diverted for smuggling and other illicit activities, and arrested 107 people during the operations, an official source reported.

Bolivia highlights Contribution of Cuban pedagogue Jaime Canfux

Published on: June 1, 2025
09:32

La Paz, Jun 1 (Prensa Latina) The executive director of the International Institute for Integration of the Andrés Bello Agreement (Iiicab), based in Bolivia, Franz Coronel, in an interview granted to Prensa Latina, highlighted the contributions of Cuban pedagogue Jaime Canfux.

Bolivia causes multi-million-dollar hits to smuggling

Published on: May 30, 2025
09:39

La Paz, May 30 (Prensa Latina) The Vice Ministry for the Fight Against Smuggling reported having caused millions in damage to smugglers in recent hours.

OMSA to certify Bolivia as an FMD-free country

Published on: May 29, 2025
11:50

La Paz, May 29 (Prensa Latina) The World Organization for Animal Health (OMSA) will deliver today to Bolivia in Paris the certification of country free of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination, an event considered here a resounding success in view of expanding meat exports.

Plans to transnationalize Bolivia’s economy denounced

Published on: May 28, 2025
15:07

La Paz, May 28 (Prensa Latina) The newspaper La Epoca reported that, at a recent meeting attended by Bolivian presidential candidates at Harvard, United States, the creation of a supranational entity to transnationalize Bolivia's economy was legitimized.

Bolivia identifies and investigates 17 smuggling clans

Published on: May 28, 2025
08:10

La Paz, May 28 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia's Deputy Minister for the Fight Against Smuggling, Colonel Luis Amílcar Velásquez, confirmed that 17 family clans involved in this type of crime, both import and reverse, are being investigated.

Constitutional ruling restores party status in Bolivia

Published on: May 27, 2025
14:29

La Paz, May 27 (Prensa Latina) The Fourth Constitutional Chamber of La Paz ordered the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to issue a new ruling in response to the lawsuit filed by the Bolivian National Action Party (PAN-BOL), which had its legal status revoked.

US Embassy in Bolivia offers reward for drug trafficker

Published on: May 22, 2025
08:45

La Paz, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian press highlighted a message from the United States Embassy offering a reward of two million dollars for information leading to the arrest of drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.

Bolivian President denounces judicial moves against MAS party

Published on: May 20, 2025
13:28

La Paz, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Luis Arce denounced on X social media the attempts to disturb the participation of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS for its Spanish acronym) and other parties in the general elections next August.

Evo Morales excluded from general elections in Bolivia

Published on: May 20, 2025
08:42

La Paz, May 20 (Prensa Latina) After closing the candidates' inscriptions for president, vice-president, and legislators, Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, was excluded on Tuesday from those lists.

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