Friday
Mar122010
BOLIVIA: ALBA Meeting Creates New Trading Currency [21 October 2009]
12 Mar 2010 1710MST Summary: New trading currency is part of multiple ALBA agreements hoping to expel US influence in Latin America.
12 Mar 2010 1710MST Friday
Mar122010
BOLIVIA: Building Strength through Control of Resources [4 September 2009]
12 Mar 2010 1642MST Summary: Talks with Chile to allow landlocked Bolivia access to the Pacific Ocean could give La Paz more leverage over the sale of its own natural resources, including lithium, a resource vital to the next generation of energy technologies.
Friday
Mar122010
BOLIVIA: Cocaine Production Increases [12 March 2009]
12 Mar 2010 1634MST Summary: Cocaine production is increasing in Bolivia as Morales asks Obama for help legitimizing the coca plant while expelling diplomats.
Friday
Mar122010
BOLIVIA: Increased Polarization [29 January 2009]
12 Mar 2010 1624MST Summary: The centralization of power under President Morales will result in even stronger tensions between La Paz and the country’s restless oil and gas rich eastern provinces.
Friday
Mar122010
BOLIVIA: Claims US Supports Opposition [4 November 2008]
12 Mar 2010 164MST Summary: Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana’s accusation that the US is backing anti-government militias moves US-Bolivian relations closer to an open break.