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Morales: Drug Cartels Better Equipped Than Bolivian Army
Wed, 07/28/2010 - 14:43 — Gustavo Saavedralaht.com
LA PAZ – President Evo Morales confirmed Tuesday that drug traffickers have more technology and modern equipment than Bolivia’s police and armed forces, and he asked for help from the international community to address that deficiency.
CALL FOR SOLIDARITY
Wed, 07/21/2010 - 18:35 — tupajURGENT: A well respected member of our community, Ilian Burbano was arrested at today's Ontario Coalition Against Poverty to stop the special diet cut.
Please join us now at we come together in solidarity:
52 Division
255 Dundas St. W.,
Toronto, ON , M5T 2W5
Dissent is not a crime.
Sumitomo to Increase Zinc Production by 4% at Bolivian Mine
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 15:10 — Gustavo SaavedraBUSINESSWEEK
July 13 (Bloomberg)
Sumitomo Corp., Japan’s third- biggest trading company, plans to boost zinc production at its mine in Bolivia by 4 percent this year as the operation runs at full capacity, an executive said.
Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua Announce Support for Iran's Nuclear Program - ALBA Group
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 13:30 — Gustavo SaavedraRenata Giraldi Reporter Agency Brazil -
PRAVDA
Government Says Bolivian Clans Linked to Mexico’s Zetas Cartel
Fri, 07/16/2010 - 13:27 — Gustavo SaavedraLatin America Herald Tribune
LA PAZ – President Evo Morales’s administration acknowledged that Bolivia’s drug clans have links to Mexico’s violent Los Zetas cartel, the official ABI news agency reported Thursday.
Oliver Stone targets U.S. policy in South American in 'South of the Border'
Sun, 07/04/2010 - 13:05 — Gustavo SaavedraThe provocateur travels South America and poses mostly gentle questions to six leftist leaders.
By Steven Zeitchik
Los Angeles Times
Photographic Exhibition on Cuban Medical Brigade Inaugurated in Bolivia
Sun, 07/04/2010 - 13:02 — Gustavo SaavedraHavana, Cuba, July 2.- An exhibition of photographs and documents on the work of Cuban internationalist physicians in Bolivia was inaugurated on Friday in La Paz to highlight the contribution of these professionals to the process of changes underway in the Andean nation since 2006.
Healing and Legal Consultation post G20
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 15:27 — tupajTonight (530pm) at Christie Pits Park (on west side of the park at Bloor St. ) there will be a Healing and Legal Consultation. Come share your experience with one another and with lawyers that want to help us effectively record our stories and collect our statements. We will also have medics and healers present to help us overcome the emotional and physical abuse we've experienced.
Mexican Teenager Shot Dead on Mexican Soil by US Border Agent
Fri, 06/11/2010 - 01:56 — Gustavo SaavedraDemocracy Now
democracynow.org
Che Guevara tourist trail to follow his life through Argentina, Cuba and Bolivia
Sun, 05/30/2010 - 09:59 — Gustavo SaavedraBy SARAH GORDON
Che Guevara, the most famous face to adorn T-shirts the world over, is to be immortalised further with a tourist route taking in the Latin American countries he touched during his life.
Tourism chiefs in Argentina, Bolivia and Cuba are working together on a historic route that will trace the life of the icon.
Actress Q’orianka Kilcher on Climate Change Activism
Fri, 04/23/2010 - 15:58 — Gustavo Saavedra
Public Figures and Celebrities “Have a Responsibility to Help Give a Voice to the Voiceless”
Democracy Now
Report-back from: World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia April 19-22
Fri, 04/23/2010 - 15:30 — tupaj 
FRIDAY, MAY 7, AT 7 P.M. - 11 P.M.
STEELWORKERS HALL
25 CECIL STREET (BETWEEN DUNDAS AND COLLEGE)
Featuring:
Bolivian Evo President Morales on President Obama
Fri, 04/23/2010 - 11:32 — Gustavo Saavedra
“I Can’t Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President"
Democracy Now
BOLIVIAN POVERTY RATE AT ITS LOWEST FOR LAST TEN YEARS
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 20:02 — Gustavo SaavedraNAM NEWS NETWORK
LA PAZ, March 23 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Poverty in Bolivia reached the lowest rate of the last 10 years, according to a Jubilee Bolivia Foundation’s report.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) reported that from 10 million people, there are about six million poor -three million of them extremely poor.
Salt 'n Power: A First Look at the Lithium Flats of Bolivia
Mon, 03/22/2010 - 14:30 — Gustavo SaavedraThe lithium needed for the batteries that power everything from our laptops to future electric cars may come more than ever from South America's vast salt flats
By Eitan Haddok
www.scientificamerican.com
BOLIVIAN CHILD TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY IN ARGENTINA EXPOSED
Thu, 03/18/2010 - 05:56 — Gustavo SaavedraNAM NEWS NETWORK
LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, March 17 – The Bolivian daily Cambio exposed a Bolivian child trafficking and slavery racket in Argentina by a ring operating in Rosario, the largest city in Santa Fe province, about 300 km from Buenos Aires.
Mob Burns Bars in Bolivia to Protest Girl’s Death
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 01:21 — Gustavo SaavedraLatin America Herald Tribune
LA PAZ – Residents of a rural community in central Bolivia burned three bars and the house of a man who allegedly raped and killed a 4-year-old girl, Bolivian media reported on Wednesday.
Clinton urges reform in Latin American nations
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 11:22 — Gustavo SaavedraBy MATTHEW LEE
American Press
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is promoting democratic and social reforms in Latin America, where many nations have troubled political histories and uneven democratic performance.
BOLIVIA: CASH FOR CHECKUPS TO SLASH MATERNAL DEATHS
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 11:20 — Gustavo SaavedraWritten by Franz Chávez
Upsidedownworld.org
(IPS) - A social programme in Bolivia that prevents the deaths of two mothers a day from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth is making headway despite administrative difficulties, and has the potential to cut the alarmingly high maternal mortality rate in this country by up to 80 percent in just five years.
The U.S./Bolivia Drug Show
Thu, 03/04/2010 - 11:54 — Gustavo Saavedrademocracyctr.org
The beginning of March in Bolivia. Some things just come around as predictable as the seasons.
Bolivia: Molecular genetics laboratory was created
Wed, 03/03/2010 - 09:18 — Gustavo Saavedram24salud
Bolivian government officials announced the creation of a molecular genetics lab where will be performed researchs to prevent illness and limit the spread of other diseases such as dengue.
AMAZING SPEECH BY WAR VETERAN
Tue, 03/02/2010 - 01:19 — Gustavo SaavedraSubtitulado en Castellano
Latin America launches new bloc excluding U.S., Canada
Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:46 — Gustavo SaavedraEnglish.news.cn
CANCUN, Mexico, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Latin American and Caribbean countries on Tuesday agreed to launch a new regional group excluding the United States and Canada.
The new bloc, seen as an alternative to the U.S.-weighted Organization of American States (OAS), is intended to weaken U.S. influence in the region.
Uribe tried to sabotage Mexico summit: Bolivia
Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:42 — Gustavo SaavedraColombiareports.com
Bolivian President Evo Morales ripped into his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday, calling the Andean leader "an agent of the empire", who attended the Rio Group Summit in Mexico in order to sabotage it.
Morales accused Uribe of only attending the two day summit in Cancun "for the photos and the lunch."
Bolivia proposes ‘punctuality bonus'
Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:56 — Gustavo SaavedraPresident pushes bill that would order employers to reward workers who go a whole month without being late
Globeandmail.com
The Bolivian government is pushing a bill that would encourage its chronically tardy citizens to show up to work on time.
Evo Morales Calls for Bringing Dignity to Bolivia’s Justice System
Mon, 02/22/2010 - 12:46 — Gustavo SaavedraPeriodico26.cu
SUCRE, Bolivia.— President Evo Morales made a call to bring dignity to Bolivia’s justice system during a ceremony where he swore in 13 members of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, and the Judiciary Council, Prensa Latina news agency reports.
BOLIVIA’S EX AUTHORITIES DESTROY OCTOBER MASSACRE DOCUMENTS
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 13:52 — Gustavo SaavedraNAM NEWS NETWORK
LA PAZ, Feb 20 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The Bolivian Attorney General’’s Office denounced on Friday that ex Armed Forces authorities destroyed documents related to the so called October Massacre(2003), when the government of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada suppressed a social demonstration that caused 68 deaths.
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