Ex-Miss Universe Inaugurates Samsung Store in Cochabamba

The 1987 Miss Universe Cecilia Bolocco presided over the inauguration of Samsung's first store in  Cochabamba.

IMF Projects 4% for Bolivia in 2010

 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a 4% rise in Bolivia's GDP for 2010 largely thanks

Bolivia Buying 6 Chinese Fighter Jets for $57.8 Million

Bolivia has announced that it is buying six Chinese K-8 light fighter jet aircraft for 57.8 million dollars to fight quote, "The mafia of drug traffickers" according to Defense Minister Walker San Miguel. In

Bolivian Bank Reserves Grow to $8.7 Billion

On January 13th the President of the Bolivian Central Bank Luis Loza announced that Bolivia's national

Social Security Payments to use Biometric Registry

The Minister of Defense Walker San Miguel informed the press that his ministry has signed an accord with the National Electoral Court to use their much lauded biometric registry for the social security

SUCRE: A New International Currency

A new currency will go into use at the end of January among the left-leaning members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) at the end of January 2010. The first transactions will be

Chilean Road Block Ends

A blockade by Chilean customs workers on the Bolivian border with Chile ended Friday after long lines of trucks lay motionaless for four days. The Bolivian Chamber of Exporters estimated that twenty million dollars

Inflation Just 0.26% in 2009

Inflation in Bolivia for 2009 was just 0.26% the lowest in South America according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). In a press conference, Planning Minister Noel Aguirre affirmed that this was Bolivia’s lowest

Banco de Credito Cited in Scandal

On Tuesday the 5th prosecutor Franz Contreras cited several Banco de Credito employees in a plot to help accused embezzler Dante Escobar Plata. Plata is incarcerated without charges in the San Pedro prison to

Exports Fall 22% in 2009

Bolivian exports declined 22% in 2009 with respect to 2008 from 6.5 billion dollars in 2008 to 5 billion in 2009 according to a report by the The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean. This

Tourism Up 10% in 2009

The Bolivian government believes that the tourism sector grew 10% in 2009 despite the global financial crisis and the H1N1 flu pandemic. Vice-minister of tourism and industry Iván Cahuaya declared that tourism revenues

Evo Denounces Obama for APTDEA Lapse

Bolivian President Evo Morales lashed out against President Obama at a press conference on Thursday, December 31st in reference to Washington’s refusal to re-instate a preferential trade agreement called