http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bolivia/ en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:13:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405444/posts Signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilisation are emerging from beneath the felled trees of the Amazon. Some 260 giant avenues, ditches and enclosures have been spotted from the air in a region straddling Brazil's border with Bolivia. The traditional view is that before the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th century there were no complex societies in the Amazon basin – in contrast to the Andes further west where the Incas built their cities. Now deforestation, increased air travel and satellite imagery are telling a different story."It's never-ending," says Denise Schaan of the... NS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405444/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:13:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403163/posts On Wednesday, November 24, Iranian demands that female nurses don the hijab in response to Iran’s providing $1.2 million for funding of the new El Alto city hospital in Bolivia sparked a national outcry among women’s rights advocates within Bolivia. In an international teleconference in La Paz held between Bolivian President, Evo Morales, and Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to celebrate the hospital’s opening, nurses were shown wearing hijabs as part of their new uniform regulations. Logan's Warning http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403163/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:36:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401955/posts LA PAZ, Bolivia, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Iran is clinching deals for trade and technical cooperation with Latin American countries with the aim of securing a foothold after the current tour of the region by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran has already fostered strong bilateral ties with Nicaragua and Venezuela, but Ahmadinejad's current tour of Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela is producing a whole series of new contracts that encompass increased trade and economic cooperation, technical assistance in the energy and mining sectors and uranium prospecting. During his one-day visit to the Bolivian capital Tuesday Ahmadinejad and Bolivian counterpart Evo Morales signed... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401955/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399723/posts The Argentinean prosecutor who ferreted out Iranian links to Argentina's largest terror attack warned Wednesday of Teheran's growing terror network in Latin America. "The Iranians are moving fast," assessed Alberto Nisman, who has secured Interpol backing for the arrest of several Iranians, including former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, for ordering the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community offices in Buenos Aires. "We see a much greater penetration than we did in 1994." He said that Iran, particularly through Lebanese proxy Hizbullah, has a growing presence in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, using techniques it honed in Argentina before the... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399723/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377226/posts SNIPPET: "Lula and Chavez have established a "strategic relationship," and recently agreed upon a joint Brazilian-Venezuelan oil venture worth billions of dollars. Lula and Chavez have joined with Daniel Ortega, the returned Nicaraguan Marxist dictator, to form an anti-U.S. Latin American military alliance - all with Russian assistance - funded by the region's abundant oil reserves. Brazil is engaged in its own arms build-up and Lula is determined that Brazil will become at least a first-rate regional power. Unfortunately, Lula is establishing Brazil as an anti-American military power by aligning with nations hostile or potentially hostile to the U.S. Lula... INATODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS TODAY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2377226/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358170/posts Bolivia's president participated in a tribute to the guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who was captured and killed by Bolivian soldiers 42 years ago while trying to foment revolution in the Andean nation. President Evo Morales, a close ally of the leftist governments in Venezuela and Cuba, has often expressed admiration for Guevara, an Argentinian who joined in Fidel Castro's successful revolution in Cuba and has become an icon for many on the left. Guevara is "invincible in his ideals," Mr Morales said at a ceremony in Vallegrande, the town in central Bolivia where the murdered rebel's body was displayed... Belfast Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358170/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351567/posts Why is ACORN's chief organizer friendly with the Marxist anti-American governments of two South American countries? Within ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis's storied rogues gallery of a rolodex may be found contact information for then-Bolivian ambassador Gustavo Guzman and for Sabine Kienzl, a professional propagandist employed by the Venezuelan embassy. The listing for Guzman contains what appears to have been a direct office telephone number.An ACORN insider I spoke with confirmed the authenticity of the rolodex which I have seen. Erick Erickson of the website RedState recently did an excellent job unveiling the rolodex.Both Bolivia and Venezuela are now headed... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351567/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:39:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335893/posts MEXICO CITY -- A 44-year-old Bolivian drug addict and alcoholic who describes himself as a church minister was the sole person responsible for the brief hijacking Wednesday of a commercial jetliner, a Mexican official said. The suspect -- Josmar Flores Pereira -- told authorities he hijacked the Boeing 737 jet because the date -- September 9, 2009, or 9/9/9, and 666 reversed -- held some significance for him, said Genaro Garcia Luna, the secretary for public safety. "He said that because of that divine reference he wanted to alert Mexico City of an earthquake," Garcia told reporters. Flanked by two... CNN Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335893/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:59:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2308567/posts Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous beret is gone. His iconic beard is filthy and matted against skeletal cheekbones. One bushy eyebrow arches over his half-open eyes. As a Bolivian country surgeon methodically saws off his lifeless hands, Che appears vaguely amused. Gustavo Villoldo, a stocky figure in green army fatigues, stands just inside the tiny laundry room where the Cuban revolutionary's corpse rests atop a sink. For five months, the CIA operative has led soldiers hunting Guevara through the rough crags and valleys of southern Bolivia. Less than 24 hours ago, his team had captured and executed him in a village... Broward-Palm Beach http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2308567/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:30:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298379/posts It's good, occasionally, to take a trip down memory lane. It helps to put things into perspective. Hugo Chavez ought never to have been elected president. By rights, he ought to be growing old in a jail cell somewhere. Well, it's been seventeen years, maybe he’d be in a half-way house by now. As an army officer in 1992, he led a military revolt against the legal, constitutional government of Venezuela, and attempted to overthrow the democratically elected president of the time, Carlos Andres Perez. He gambled that once the shooting started, the minister of defense and the rest of... Conservative Underground http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2298379/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:56:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289856/posts The push for conversion to plug-in electric cars will do nothing to stop carbon emissions, a report by the GAO warns, throwing cold water on a push by Democrats to get more plug-ins on the road. In fact, the problem could be made worse as demand goes up at coal-fired electrical plants. Plus, the need for batteries may just have the US changing the dictators to which we’re chained, as IBD reports... HotAir.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289856/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:38:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288512/posts Alternative Energy: A government report says reliance on electric cars will do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and may merely shift our dependence on foreign sources from one set of dictators to another.It's a beautiful theory — highways full of electric cars emitting no greenhouse gases or pollutants after being plugged into an outlet in our garages overnight. The problem, according to a new Government Accountability Office report, is that the effort may only shift the problem somewhere else. "If you are using coal-fired power plants, and half the country's electricity comes from coal-powered plants, are you just trading... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288512/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:11:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288463/posts Alternative Energy: A government report says reliance on electric cars will do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and may merely shift our dependence on foreign sources from one set of dictators to another..."If you are using coal-fired power plants, and half the country's electricity comes from coal-powered plants, are you just trading one greenhouse gas emitter for another?" asks Mark Gaffigan, co-author of the GAO report. The report itself notes: "Reductions in CO2 emissions depend on generating electricity used to charge the vehicles from lower-emission sources of energy." IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288463/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278257/posts A BOLIVIAN television news channel has been left red-faced after falling for a hoax that saw it claim pictures from the hit TV show Lost were actually the last moment of Air France flight AF447 before it plunged into the ocean on June 1. Internet footage shows a Periodistas Asociados de Televisión (PAT) newsreader describing several shots from inside the plane as it broke in half. The shots show passengers being sucked out of the back of the plane into midair. news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278257/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:49:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273445/posts A poor, agrarian, landlocked country in South America with a nearly 100 percent Christian population is hardly the place one would expect to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism in the Western Hemisphere. But a recent report by the Open Source Center (OSC) of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it's so. There are only 1,000 Muslims in Bolivia, a country of 9.7 million people, but the connection between some of the community’s religious leaders and Iran — as well as with fundamentalist factions in the Palestinian territories — has U.S. officials and terror experts keeping a... Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273445/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:41:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273380/posts A poor, agrarian, landlocked country in South America with a nearly 100 percent Christian population is hardly the place one would expect to become a hotbed of Islamic extremism in the Western Hemisphere. But a recent report by the Open Source Center (OSC) of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it's so. .... One Muslim leader named in the OSC report is Mahmud Amer Abusharar, founder of the Centro Islamico Boliviano (CIB) in Santa Cruz. Abusharar emigrated from the Palestinian territories in 1974 and claims to have built Bolivia’s first mosque in 1994 so that he would... foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273380/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:31:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257961/posts Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The two South American countries are known to have close ties with Iran, but this is the first allegation that they are involved in the development of Iran's nuclear program, considered a strategic threat by Israel. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257961/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 20:37:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257962/posts Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257962/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 20:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256777/posts MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) - Bolivia may order weaponry worth several million dollars from Russia in the near future, a deputy foreign minister said on Friday. Sources earlier reported that Bolivia had expressed interest in buying a number of Russian-made Mi-17 multipurpose helicopters to combat terrorism and drug trafficking. "As to purchases of military equipment, we are interested not only in helicopters, but also in other kinds of weaponry," Hugo Fernandez told a news conference at RIA Novosti. "Agreements on the list of military equipment which we would like to purchase have not yet been reached, but we will... RIA Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256777/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 06:47:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2254462/posts http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242212406822&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2254462/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 04:12:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247277/posts Bolivia’s Chacaltaya Glacier, once known as the world’s highest ski run at 17,388 feet, has completely melted away, serving as a vivid example of the effects of climate change on the glaciers around the globe. “Chacaltaya has disappeared. It no longer exists.” - Dr. Edson Ramirez, Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres In 1999, Ramirez, the head of a team of researchers studying the glacier since 1991, believed that the glacier would continue to exist until 2015, but the rate of melting tripled in the last ten years, and the once popular tourist destination... ecoWorldly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247277/posts#comment Fri, 8 May 2009 23:46:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244554/posts Globovision of Caracas reports news that we hope is inaccurate, and which will be denied by former President Carter. The Venezuelan television network states that he has accepted an invitation to participate in the cultivation of coca with left wing Bolivian president Evo Morales, who grows it in Boliva. "Given that President Morales has been to my property, and evidently has harvested some peanuts, I hope that on my next visit I can go to El Chapare, where he is going to take me to harvest some coca leaves," responded Carter, which also drew a smirk of happiness from Morales.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244554/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 15:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237422/posts We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons: - The Declaration does not provide answers to the Global Economic Crisis, even though this crisis constitutes the greatest challenge faced by humanity in the last decades and is the most serious threat of the current times to the welfare of our peoples. - The Declaration unfairly excludes Cuba, without mentioning the consensus in the region condemning the blockade and isolation... Rabble.CA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237422/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:05:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235594/posts Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: La Paz, Bolivia Kidnapping Awareness CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Bolivia 21 Apr 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 3 Apr 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: POSSIBLE BOLIVIA SOCIAL UNREST 6 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BOLIVIA CIVIC PARADES MARCH 6 13 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BOLIVIA ADVISES CARNAVAL VIGILANCE 6 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BOLIVIA DEMONSTRATION FEBRUARY 7 22 Jan 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: BOLIVIA DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK U.S. Embassy La Paz issued the following Warden Message on April 21: Express... OSAC.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235594/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:12:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234980/posts Journalist-turned-Croatian independence fighter Eduardo Rosza-Flores was asked in an interview a few years ago with the Hungarian edition of Elle Magazine if he would ever assassinate someone for a cause. "Only if [that person] comes to kill others," said Rozsa, according to an English version of the transcript posted on one of his blogs. "To protect and save the lives of my friends." The question now is whether Rozsa, a Hungarian-Bolivian, felt that way about Bolivian President Evo Morales. Rozsa was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234980/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:15:45 GMT