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Date: 9 June 2006
Bolivia’s gas plan may hit Chile’s supply
Financial Times – London,England,UK
… Aires. Chile could face power shortages as a result of Bolivia’s
plan to nationalise its gas sector, energy experts have warned. …
news.ft.com/cms/s/f27b35da-f72b-11da-a566-0000779e2340.html
Land distribution adds to social tensions in Bolivia
Peninsula On-line – Qatar
… he had no reason to discuss his agrarian reform policies with leaders
of the economically powerful Santa Cruz business community of eastern
Bolivia, who are …
www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&sub
section=Americas&month=June2006&file=World_News200606097246.xml
Bolivia FM: Chile ready for open dialog with Bolivia
People's Daily Online – Beijing,China
Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said on Thursday that Chile
was ready to have open dialog with Bolivia, and that both governments
were preparing …
english.people.com.cn/200606/09/eng20060609_272514.html
Petrobras Plans to Raise Oil, Gas Output Through 2007 (Update1)
Bloomberg – USA
… Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state- controlled oil company, will
increase domestic hydrocarbon output by the end of next year after Bolivia
seized control …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=a5I6fcQrff20&refer=latin_america
Petrobras says Bolivia only seeking higher tax
Reuters – USA
… 9 (Reuters) – Brazil’s state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote,
Profile, Research)(PBR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday that
Bolivia was only …
today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID
=2006-06-09T143357Z_01_L09716472_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-PETROBRAS-BOLIVIA.XML&rpc=66
Bolivia: Chilean Legislators To Visit
Stratfor – USA
Twelve Chilean legislators are scheduled to meet with their Bolivian counterparts
in La Paz, Bolivia, on June 11 and 12 for the first bilateral meeting
between …
www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=267428
Date: 10 June 2006
Dispute in Bolivia Parliament
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Jun 9(Prensa Latina) A meeting of party leaders of the Chamber
of Deputies is analyzing what measures to adopt on Friday over a dispute
between pro …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B9ABCFD5B-
4BB0-4625-99BC-A54359D0C269%7D&language=EN
Bolivia, Paraguay to study joint venture
BusinessWeek – USA
9 6:32 PM ET Bolivia and Paraguay agreed Friday to study a joint venture
to build a US$300 million (euro240 million) natural gas pipeline as well
as gas plants …
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8I4VEB80.htm?sub=apn_home_down&chan=db
Bolivia, Paraguay to Study Joint Venture
Houston Chronicle – United States
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia and Paraguay agreed Friday to study a joint
venture to build a US$300 million (euro240 million) natural gas pipeline
as well as gas …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/3955733.html
Bolivians Support Cuban Doctors
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Jun 9 (Prensa Latina) A new popular solidarity march to support
Cuban physicians working in Bolivia had a great impact on the citizens
of the eastern …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B9BD8CB76-E204-4864-B2E3-D1F2F907BED0%7D)&language=EN
Bolivian policeman killed in eviction raid
Independent Online – Cape Town,South Africa
Bolivia – A Bolivian policeman was shot dead on Friday during a raid to
evict squatters from private land, officials said, in the second violent
incident …
www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1149875461631B214
Bolivia and Paraguay outline joint natural gas plan
Reuters – USA
LA PAZ, Bolivia, June 9 (Reuters) – Neighbors Bolivia and Paraguay on Friday
announced ambitious energy cooperation plans that involve building a natural
gas …
today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006
-06-10T011653Z_01_N09209513_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-BOLIVIA-PARAGUAY.XML&rpc=66
Bolivian Bishops Give Politicos the Good News
Zenit News Agency – Rome,Italy
LA PAZ, Bolivia, JUNE 9, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Bible and the social doctrine
of the Church as resources in the struggle to eliminate poverty in Bolivia
…
www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=90676
Bolivia’s Natural Gas Gamble
Hartford Courant – United States
… Associated Press. LA PAZ, Bolivia — Sending in troops and taking over
Bolivia’s natural gas sector was the easy part. Now President …
www.courant.com/business/hc-bolivia0610.
artjun10,0,6761789.story?coll=hc-headlines-business
Politics shadow energy integration
Miami Herald – FL,USA
… The politics behind energy integration have come to the fore in recent
months as Bolivia and Ecuador moved to give the state more control of
their deposits …
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/14784604.htm
Bolivia Wants Venezuela in CAN
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
… Choquehuanca says he could, especially considering what his country
feels is a necessity to preserve the CAN and the friendship between Venezuela
and Bolivia. …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B29789994-5C91-4B1E-BA17-CF6BE4E8B1BA%7D)&language=EN
Fist-fight in Bolivia’s congress
Channel 4 News – London,UK
An argument in Bolivia’s Congress over the scrapping of a bill developed
into a fist fight. Members of the country’s ruling Socialist …
www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=1968004
Date: 11 June 2006
BOLIVIA: Morales’s ‘agrarian revolution’
Green Left Weekly – Chippendale,NSW,Australia
… Their faces and silhouettes contrasted with the “tall, white and
English speaking” definition of the people of Santa Cruz recently offered
by a Miss Bolivia …
www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/671/671p19.htm
Latin American: Cradle of volatile investments
Philadelphia Inquirer – Philadelphia,PA,USA
… The company has invested $1.5 billion in Bolivia since 1995, and it
is in talks with that country’s government to determine how much Bolivia
might pay for …
www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/14788764.htm
VENEZUELA: Deepening Latin American integration
Green Left Weekly – Chippendale,NSW,Australia
… promoted by Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez of increasing
the economic integration of Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia
have signed …
www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/671/671p18.htm
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Wilmington Morning Star – Wilmington,NC,USA
… 119, Wilmington. Brunswick County Planning Board, 6:30 pm, Central
Services Building, government complex, Bolivia. Belville Town …
www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060611/NEWS/606110372/1002
Fidel Castro: immigrants are “the modern slaves”
Dominican Today – Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic
… Bolivia’s Education Minister, Felix Patzi, thanked Cuba and Venezuela
for the technical support teaching how to read and write to hundreds of
thousand of …
www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=14419
‘Che’ trail paved with tourism promise
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
… flourishing in the footsteps of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born
Cuban revolutionary who died in his unsuccessful attempt to bring communism
to Bolivia …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4AA7915A-0210-4108-A434-6A8D1E75D858.htm
Bolivia, Argentina to negotiate gas prices
BusinessWeek – USA
8 5:42 PM ET The presidents of Bolivia and Argentina will meet next week
in southern Bolivia in bid to nail down a price for Bolivian natural gas
sold to its …
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8I49JPG2.htm?sub=apn_home_down&chan=db
El Salvador president criticises ‘socialist experiments’
Financial Times – London,England,UK
… His comments come as several governments in the region, most notably
those of Bolivia and Venezuela, are implementing increasingly radical
leftwing policies. …
news.ft.com/cms/s/c0f15e50-f96e-11da-8ced-0000779e2340.html
Date: 12 June 2006
Bolivia says near Argentina natgas deal-report
Reuters – USA
LA PAZ, Bolivia, June 11 (Reuters) – Bolivia and Argentina are close to
an agreement to significantly raise prices for natural gas that Bolivia
exports to its …
today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=
2006-06-12T030518Z_01_N11213673_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-BOLIVIA-ARGENTINA.XML&rpc=66
‘’China’s Growing Involvement in Latin America’’
PINR – USA
… and the Central American republics fear losing jobs and investment);
and a third group of countries consider China their ideological ally (Bolivia,
Cuba, and …
www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=508&language_id=1
Fears of ‘pink tide’ overblown
Arizona Republic – Phoenix,AZ,USA
… Bolivia’s recent nationalization of its natural-gas industry was seen
as an ominous example of the assertive, left-leaning policies that aggravate
and concern …
www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0612mon2-12.html
WEEK AHEAD
Kentucky.com – Lexington,KY,USA
… Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the
mortgage company Fannie Mae. • Bolivia’s state energy company, YPFB,
takes back …
www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/business/14791827.htm
Postal kindness made the trip possible
Wilmington Morning Star – Wilmington,NC,USA
But Cameron Brand of Bolivia wants to thank a now-retired worker at that
community’s post office for going above and beyond earlier this year.
…
www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060612/NEWS/606120349/1004
Viva Bolivia!
Texas A&M The Battalion – College Station,TX,USA
April 8, 2000: A 17-year-old boy is shot dead at a rally in Cochabamba,
Bolivia – killed for protesting a law privatizing the area’s water supply.
…
www.thebatt.com/news/2006/06/12/Opinion/Viva-Bolivia-2043470.shtml
Bolivia shifts tactics in its war on cocaine
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
Puerto Villarroel, Bolivia — As Bolivian soldiers torch a pit filled with
chemicals and coca leaves used to make cocaine, a fireball shoots toward
a jungle …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/12/MNGDPJCKUR1.DTL
Bolivia Honors Che Guevara
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Jun 12 (PL) Bolivia’s President Evo Morales will attend an act
at La Higuera locality on Wednesday, aimed at paying a special tribute
to the Argentinean …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B8DEED132-F519-4DFD-8B7D-EDF2A5379F64%7D)&language=EN
HEALTH-BOLIVIA: Childbirth Still a Gamble, Despite Care Efforts
Inter Press Service (subscription) – Rome,Italy
LA PAZ, Jun 12 (IPS) – While the birth of a child generally represents
joy and life, in Bolivia, new motherhood is all too often plagued with
fear, uncertainty …
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33576
Argentine Docs Aid Bolivia
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Buenos Aires, Jun 12 (Prensa Latina) A group of Argentinean health professionals
is flying Monday to Bolivia to realize a social-health diagnostic and
organize …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BCDF942F2-DE1A-4784-8D40-451C430238F6%7D)&language=EN
Cuban doctors “are here to stay”, says Bolivia’s Morales
MercoPress – Montevideo,Uruguay
… Addressing the crowd, Morales said that Cuban doctors operated on 20.000
patients “for free” and Cuba not only helps Bolivia with doctors,
but also …
www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=8120
Date: 13 June 2006
Andean bloc seeks common ground after Chavez split
Washington Post – United States
… Allied with US foe Cuba and with Bolivia, Chavez presents his ideas
for socialist revolution as an alternative to free trade deals with Washington
and has …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061201766.html
Bolivians Defend Presence of Cuban Doctors
Periódico 26 – Las Tunas,Cuba
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia.— A diverse group of Bolivians including representatives
from farm, community and labor groups marched over the weekend to demand
free …
www.periodico26.cu/english/news_world/bolivia061206.htm
EDITORIAL: ‘Phishy’ smell certain sign of sharks
Hawke's Bay Today – Hawke's Bay,New Zealand
… the fraud. The Kiwibank phishing scam has been traced to Bolivia. Banks
say they do not request personal details by e-mail. Those …
www.hbtoday.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=368
8342&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
Morales: Unworked Mines Should Be Reverted
Houston Chronicle – United States
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Evo Morales said Monday that privately
held mines that have not seen any investment should be returned to the
government …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/3963260.html
AROUND THE WORLD
Houston Chronicle – United States
… Foreign ministers from Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Bolivia gathered
Monday in Quito. The countries’ presidents are scheduled to meet today.
…
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/3963906.html
European Union observes the upcoming polls in Bolivia
EUROPA (press release) – Brussels,Belgium
… an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) to the Constituent Assembly
Elections and to the Referendum on Regional Autonomy elections in Bolivia,
both scheduled …
europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06
/777&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Energy and mining stocks and Latin America’s nationalisations
The Daily Reckoning – London,UK
… In Bolivia, recently-elected president Evo Morales has set about nationalising
the country’s oil and gas sector. Troops were sent to gas fields on 2
May. …
www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/article/120620062.html
Ex-Morales backer decries party betrayal
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Adriana Gil braved death threats, public insults
and social ostracism to campaign for Evo Morales in Bolivia’s conservative
eastern …
www.washtimes.com/world/20060613-123249-3197r.htm
Bolivia, Argentina to Set Gas Price
Houston Chronicle – United States
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The presidents of Bolivia and Argentina will set a
new price for the natural gas that Bolivia sends its neighbor on June
29 in Buenos Aires …
www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/3965142.html
Date: 14 June 2006
Andean leaders seek unity after Chavez split
Reuters – USA
QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) – Andean leaders agreed on Tuesday to seek an
extension of US trade benefits for Ecuador and Bolivia as they met to
soothe friction …
today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=winterOlympics&storyID=
2006-06-14T001415Z_01_N13425022_RTRUKOC_0_US-TRADE-ANDEAN.xml
Andean states seek US trade extension
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia sought the extension
of US trade benefits for Ecuador and Bolivia on Tuesday. …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2D607B01-6461-49C7-9D19-98C0D3CB204E.htm
Bolivia’s Morales spreads nationalisation ideals
Reuters.uk – UK
QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters)- Bolivia’s first indigenous president Evo Morales
on Tuesday told hundreds of cheering Indians in Ecuador’s capital to keep
fighting …
today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-06-
14T043132Z_01_N13139198_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ECUADOR-INDIAN.xml&archived=False
Bolivian Prez Bets on Reviving CAN
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
… The first indigenous president of this bloc, created 37 years ago,
called for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to abandon mercantilism
in bilateral …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BCD2042D6-61E4-40A0-B825-9FD9218AFD25%7D)&language=EN
bolivia: Morales launches ‘agrarian revolution’
Monday Morning – Beirut,Lebanon
… But Morales, who recently shocked foreign companies with the nationalization
of Bolivia’s vast natural gas industry, said the public land distribution
…
www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=3669&CategoryID=7
Analysis: S. America energy off track
Monsters and Critics.com – Glasgow,UK
… The Washington, DC-based group asserts that ongoing tensions like those
between Chile and Bolivia and new flare-ups pitting leaders in La Paz
against those in …
news.monstersandcritics.com/energywatch/features/
article_1172581.php/Analysis_S._America_energy_off_track
Colombia’s Uribe to Ask Bush to Extend Andean Trade Benefits
Voice of America – USA
… Ecuador and Bolivia have both asked Washington to extend the trade
program, which rewards them for their efforts in fighting the drug trade.
…
www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-14-voa19.cfm
Date: 15 June 2006
Miami Doctors Hope To Save Teen With Half Heart
Click10.com – Miami,FL,USA
… Children’s Hospital in Miami. The charity is trying to raise $65,000
for care here that is not available in Bolivia. The right half …
www.local10.com/news/9371496/detail.html
Andean Bloc To Lobby Washington For New Trade Deal
All Headline News – USA
The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, which have formed
the Andean Bloc, want US trade benefits extended to Ecuador and Bolivia.
…
www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003914236
Argentina, Bolivia to Fix Gas Price
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Buenos Aires, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) Argentina and Bolivia will agree on
a new price for Bolivian gas during the meeting Presidents Nestor Kirchner
and Evo …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B11B42D31
-0B4E-4A3A-819B-60E758391CE6%7D&language=EN
Bolivia: Morales Recalls Che Guevara
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Vallegrande, Bolivia, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) The memory of Commander Ernesto
Che Guevara, very much alive on the narrow streets of this Bolivian historic
city …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BC087E443-B127-400C-8708-56C5CC102817%7D
Bolivia May Clip Wings of LAB
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
La Paz, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia´s Lloyd Aereo Boliviano airline
will stop flying as of Friday if it does not authorize a half million
dollar insurance …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B2EDDA3E7-
402A-49D6-B2BB-1F43FFC71531%7D&language=EN
Hugo Chávez’s provocative solidarity
Open Democracy – London,UK
… One of the earliest examples was Chávez’s backing – in 2003-04 –
of Bolivia’s demand that Chile restore its outlet to the sea. …
www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/chavez_solidarity_3642.jsp
Evo Morales’s project: the limits of nationalism
Open Democracy – London,UK
These are interesting and progressive times for Bolivia, and for Latin
America as a whole. Indeed, it can be argued that the continental …
www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/morales_nationalism_3645.jsp
Bolivian Prez for Indigenous Languages
Prensa Latina – Havana,Cuba
Morales made his remarks in a gathering to mark the 71st anniversary of
the end of The Chaco War (1932-1935) between Bolivia and Paraguay. …
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B4ECC940F-6295-4485-86FD-A76AE7207810%7D
Repsol YPF could announce lower Venezuela reserves Friday – report
Forbes – USA
… In Bolivia, the company could announce a further 8 pct reduction to
its reserves after cutting them by 659 mln barrels of oil equivalent in
January, the …
www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2006/06/15/afx2816711.html
‘’Bolivia’s Evo Morales Launches His Movement Toward Socialism …
PINR – USA
uring the early part of June, Bolivia’s new president Evo Morales broadened
his campaign to transform the country’s economic, political, social and
cultural …
www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=510&language_id=1
News briefs from around Florida
Bradenton Herald – FL, United States
… Holtz Children’s Hospital. The charity is seeking to raise $65,000
for care here that is not available in Bolivia. The right half …
www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/14818373.htm
Bolivia’s Morales Pays Homage to Che Guevara
Voice of America – USA
… The Bolivian president said he would “take up arms” against the “empire”
if it attacked either Bolivia, Cuba or Venezuela. In 1966 …
www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-15-voa14.cfm
Andean nations reach consensus on US trade
Miami Herald – FL,USA
… Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Alfredo Palacio, Colombia’s Alvaro
Uribe and Peru’s Alejandro Toledo signed an accord pledging to respect
the rights of …
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/international/14819897.htm
Film shows Carville at work in Bolivia
Belmont Citizen-Herald – Lexington,MA,USA
The film shows the 2002 presidential election campaign in Bolivia, orchestrated
by former Clinton campaign manager James Carville. …
www2.townonline.com/belmont/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=517657
Date: 16 June 2006
From Bolivia to Baquba
Al-Ahram Weekly – Cairo,Egypt
… Somalia. A new front of anti-US leaders is coalescing in Latin America,
bringing together Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil. Resistance …
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/799/op3.htm
Texas missionary drills down to the basics with water well …
Dallas Baptist Standard – Dallas,TX,USA
… Terry Waller, a missionary to Bolivia through World Concern and Southland
Baptist Church of San Angelo, went to Kenya recently at the request of
Lifewater …
www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=5045
Opposition in Fiji against plans to privatise Fiji’s ailing water …
Radio New Zealand – Wellington,New Zealand
… They say experience in other parts of the world where water has been
privatised like Bolivia, Guinea, South Africa and Ghana shows that privatisation
has led …
www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/rnzi/200606161023/1086469a
Bound for Bolivia
Hickory Daily Record – Hickory,NC,USA
… He will put that experience to good use as he and 32 volunteers leave
today for a two-week trip to Bolivia to perform eye surgeries. …
www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=HDR/
MGArticle/HDR_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188538103
Repsol May Lower Bolivia Reserve Estimates
MSN Money – USA
MADRID, Spain (AP) – Spanish-Argentine energy company Repsol YPF may have
to lower its estimates of gas reserves in Bolivia when new legislation
there comes …
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