Bolivia

Amazon summit calls on developed nations to fulfil climate funding deals
Twelve countries, representing the Amazon, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, join pact for rainforest funding.
Published On 9 Aug 2023
Amazon nations launch alliance to protect rainforest at key summit
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela sign declaration to safeguard the Amazon.
Published On 9 Aug 2023
Bolivia taps China, Russia in bid to unlock huge lithium riches
Bolivia’s iconic salt flats are home to world’s largest lithium resources but it has long struggled to ramp up output.
Published On 29 Jun 2023
Vatican sends priest’s diary to Bolivia amid sex abuse scandal
The late priest Alfonso Pedrajas is accused of sexually abusing children while working in Bolivian boarding schools.
Published On 23 Jun 2023

Prado Salmon led a military operation backed by the US that captured the Argentinian communist revolutionary.

President Gabriel Boric’s programme to exert state control over lithium production sparks conservative backlash.

Waves of Venezuelan refugees and migrants are arriving in Chile, attracted by political and economic stability.

Luis Fernando Camacho is being held on ‘terrorism’ charges related to a 2019 crisis that ousted Bolivia’s Evo Morales.

Morales criticised the removal of former President Pedro Castillo, who tried to dissolve Peru’s Congress last month.

Court finds Arturo Murillo guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering and sentences him to 70 months in prison.

Protesters in farming hub of Santa Cruz province block highways as calls grow for release of Luis Fernando Camacho.

Opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho to spend up to four months in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges.

Prosecutors seek six-month pre-trial detention for jailed right-wing Santa Cruz Governor Luis Fernando Camacho.

Governor of the Santa Cruz region, Luis Fernando Camacho, was detained following weeks of protests in the region.

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