Bolivia

DANIEL YERGIN: Bolivia may be a *all country, but it had a very big impact in terms of kick-starting reform throughout Latin America.

Chile comes out on top, while Bolivia is at the bottom.

Back in New York, Ms Moore is preparing for the next book cycles, which will include children's stories in Haiti, Bolivia and Afghanistan.

LAST December Evo Morales, Bolivia's socialist president, easily won a second term and with it a mandate to implement a new constitution.

The team will build software to help the public contribute to the work of this charity, which works among the poor in Bolivia.

After the expulsion of America's ambassadors to Venezuela and Bolivia, Mr Correa hastened to say that he would not be following suit.

Bolivia may have been an irritant and an obstruction but the other negotiators knew it was right about this.

We must try to look at him as he will be seen by the mixed- race countries of Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela.

No-one was more critical than Bolivia, which earlier this year hosted its own 'social summit' on climate change.

The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was a militant coca grower prior to his Presidency and passionately defends coca growing and chewing.

My order took just a few days and the cases, made in Bolivia, are well designed and manufactured and look extremely sleek.

We need the United States, China, Bolivia and Venezuela to say less, and for Europe, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa to say more.

Bolivia's defense minister said the central government has sent food to the affected areas, supplies and pharmaceuticals.

NARRATOR: Goni's party did win the election, and he became minister of planning. He told the president that Bolivia was running out of time.

In Santa Cruz, Bolivia, it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

Bolivia continues to clamour for its lost outlet to the sea. Apart from a minor quibble over the land border, Peru makes no such claim.

In 2002 it withdrew from seven countries, including Bolivia, which had poor profit margins, in a cost cutting exercise.

But in Bolivia, one of South America's poorest nations, regulatory gray areas can be especially broad here in its remote interior.

"We have to give merit to Bolivia who were better than us in every part of the field, " he went on.

Race downhill on a mountain bike in the arid mountains of Bolivia, then tackle the rock face head on as you climb the mountainside.

A second tier, where between a fifth and a third lack adequate food, includes much of West Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Bolivia.

Peru and Bolivia are the tarns and fells of the Alto Plano, snowy peaks and the fifth day of a miners' picket that had closed the highway.

"The Gift of Pachamama" is about a little boy in Bolivia. He travels with his father and a herd of llamas to trade salt.

Spider monkeys, like this young one in Bolivia's Madidi National Park, are dependent on their mothers for about ten weeks after birth.

The nations found to have the biggest reductions were Egypt, Ecuador and Bolivia. The researchers say China also had a sharp drop.

Last month Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, sent troops to the lowlands of Santa Cruz department to crack down on gold mining.

Bolivia's Foreign Ministry said they will arrange an air journey for Zenobia to meet her son in Chile.

Our team leader was born and raised in Bolivia and moved to the U. S. as a teenager, enlisted, and later became an officer.

Bolivia and Peru at the junction of the Keya Ao plateau, known as the "Pearl of the plateau. "

These Serbs were gunned down last month in Bolivia, where it was reported they were working for a drug cartel.

Each time the bedrock of his support has been the indigenous population, which makes up around half of Bolivia's population.

Evo Morales, Bolivia's first president of Indian descent, is regarded by many as a champion of the poor.

"The government of Bolivia will never give away control of this natural resource, " he said.

Bolivia is a very diverse in terms of its indigenous population.

The Delegation of Bolivia stated that , as a megadiverse country , it attached great importance to the work of the IGC .

Maybe the carnage in Bolivia spooked them, I said. Maybe, he replied.

There is plenty of natural gas in neighbouring Bolivia. That would be especially handy for the big copper mines in Chile's north.

Morales has diligently fought for the rights of coca growers and tossed the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) out of Bolivia.

China also has an eye on Bolivia's rich natural resources, and relations with that country have been warming up.

This enormous landlocked river delta forms an ecologically diverse wetland ecosystem in parts of Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

A cormorant returns with its catch at dawn in the Pantanal, a vast wetland that sprawls across Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vows to defend Bolivia if there is an attempt to topple President Evo Morales .

Meanwhile, in Bolivia, halfway around the world and smack in the middle of the Andes, the controversy is causing chuckles .

My wife and I have established our own little special charity for a family in Bolivia that has children with severe medical challenges.

It ranks 74th out of 234 nations in terms of Internet addresses, behind Nigeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia and El Salvador.

The lab was the fourth large facility to be found in Bolivia this year.

Photograph by Robert B. Haas Dry waterways branch toward blue water across the massive Uyuni salt flats in southwestern Bolivia.

A former commander of Bolivia's counter-narcotics police was arrested in Panama and extradited to the United States last month.

Brazil rejected a request from Argentina to cede some of its contracted shipments of natural gas from Bolivia.

The small town deep in the jungle here is much like any other community in Bolivia's tropical northwest.

Bolivia is considering pulling out of the convention if its modest proposal is struck down.

Some of the dispossessed were persuaded to make a new life in Bolivia.

One of South America's poorest countries, Bolivia is struggling with competition for natural resources.

On Friday night, with the draft texts of an agreement prepared and every other nation ready for a deal, Bolivia wouldn't budge.

THE Amerindian peoples of Canada, where they are known as First Nations, like those in Bolivia, have traditionally held land in common.

Among the species whose names have been 'sold' in this way are orchids, frogs, and insects from Bolivia, Madagascar and the Philippines.

Bolivia has 47 trillion cubic feet of proven and probable natural gas reserves, one of the largest deposits of the fuel in South America.

In any case, the Obama administration has so far not changed the Bush administration's policies toward Bolivia.

Aymara is a Native American language and one of the official languages of Peru and Bolivia.

Second: a change in the constitution "to give equal rights and opportunities to us -- Bolivia's indigenous people. "

Half a century on, consuming coca remains legal in Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and some parts of Colombia, in defiance of the convention.

As a result, growers have moved back: in the past decade, the area used for coca rose by 55% in Peru and 42% in Bolivia.

Others found it ironic that on dates that violence would erupt in Bolivia, that Morales would be nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Bolivia's government has declared a state of emergency in response to flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains.

The Delegation of Bolivia said that it just wanted to repeat very briefly some its positions on the issues they were discussing .

Mr Ahmadinejad has made two visits to Latin America, taking in Nicaragua, Ecuador and Bolivia, as well as Venezuela on both occasions.

It is a curious fact of history that what happened in Bolivia was to have a direct impact on the frozen economies of Eastern Europe.

Guess which country is expected to have the fastest economic growth in the Americas this year? Bolivia.

The Delegation of Bolivia stated that the development issue was the main challenge of the century.

The lake is navigable all year round, is connected to Peru, Bolivia transport routes between the two countries.

Brazil has not fought over any bits of the Amazon since the scrap with Bolivia over Acre 107 years ago.

Scientists say rising temperatures have accelerated the retreat of Andean glaciers throughout Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Life in Color: Green Leaf-green pierid butterflies alight on the sandy shores of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.

" Second question down the road was " You're from Bolivia -- what's the inflation rate in Bolivia this week?

Arrangements were made the night before with an official from the local Aymara -- the largest indigenous group in Bolivia.

Rain dampened most of the fires raging throughout Bolivia in early September 2010, but the fire disaster was not entirely over.

The protesters are angry at what they see as the exploitation of Bolivia natural resources by foreign companies and governments.

But for several other reasons, he also made inroads in eastern Bolivia, where the conservative opposition was dominant.

During the Cold War, Soviet-ally Castro funded guerrilla wars against pro-U. S. governments in Nicaragua, Bolivia and El Salvador.

Researchers from the U. S. and Bolivia tested whether a pepper's heat offers it protection.

MILAN - Ronaldinho left the pitch in the 76th minute during the clash between Brazil and Bolivia, substituted by Nilmar.

The Draft Civil Code of Bolivia , Peru , Puerto Rico and the last Argentine draft regulate these rights .

In Bolivia, it is the main dance at the carnival in the city of Oruro which has been given special cultural heritage status by the UN.

The man in question was Pablo Solon, the head of Bolivia's delegation to the UN talks.

Countries that have disclosed purchases include Thailand, Russia and Bolivia.

But if Bolivia's other public enterprises are any guide, the power companies will probably become less efficient under government control.

Far from improving the quality of justice in Bolivia, Mr Morales's reforms risk making it worse.

He was lucky to survive in the two-day journey crossing Bolivia's Andean Altiplano, where temperatures at night can fall below freezing.

But cultivation in Bolivia and Peru has long outstripped traditional use, and is rising sharply.

I myself have helped to negotiate many sovereign debt restructurings, from Bolivia to Poland to Nigeria and beyond. But Greece is different.

Time will tell. With a lithium shortage forecast for 2015, Bolivia may also have the upper hand.

I will bring my experiences back to Bolivia to run the Academia de Idiomas in Bolivia, and teach Chinese as a foreign language.

The Delegation of Bolivia thanked the Chair for the effort that had gone into the preparation of the paper.

Loans to the education and health sectors in Bolivia have been identified as early priorities.

The nations found to have the biggest reductions were Egypt, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Bolivia is still poor, but it has been growing.

EL ALTO, the de facto capital of Bolivia's indigenous Indians, is a massive, poor semi-slum constructed from charmless cinder bricks.

Bolivia held its first ever "National Day of the Pedestrian" , banning all cars and public transport from the streets.

Puerto Maldonado is the capital of Peru's Madre de Dios region (similar to an American state), which abuts Bolivia and Brazil.

Morales, 52, not married, he said his life companion is Bolivia.

Some dams will be in Peruvian and Bolivia parts of the jungle.

This one is a beautiful picture of a vintage train here in the highlands of Bolivia.

Right across Bolivia thousands of people have been left homeless by weeks of heavy rain.

In the southern hemisphere, the winter solistice coincided with the celebration of the Aymara New Year in Tiwanaku, Bolivia, on Monday.

The ban notwithstanding, Bolivia's roads are choked with unregistered vehicles, which skip road tax or use false number plates.

Yet whereas Mr Morales is Bolivia's first indigenous president, Mr Correa has turned Ecuador's indigenous movement against him.

In Bolivia, there were strong links between women using contraception and having jobs outside of the home.

Meanwhile, Bolivia's Diego Balanza said delegates have to move past the previous climate conference failures.

Bolivia's government recently passed a law allowing it to close media that publish content it deems racist.

She was named "Queen of Hispanic America 2008" in a contest in Bolivia.

Llaretas can be found throughout the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

George Bush's administration responded to Mr Goldberg's expulsion by declaring Bolivia unco-operative on drugs.

There have also been various moves on trade finance between Iran and Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela.

Its white peaks tower over the nearby city of La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital.

Bolivia insists it would continue to fight cocaine and limit coca cultivation.

In other fast-growing countries -- Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa -- nearly one-third is 14 or younger.

Bolivia, meanwhile, cannot decide whether it wants an NOC at all.

Improved performance was reported for Cambodia, China, Israel, Belize and Bolivia.

Bolivia is bounded on the north and east by Brazil, on the south by Argentina and Paraguay, and on the west by Peru and Chile.

His fellow socialist Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, has also struggled to keep big promises on Indian land rights.

Bolivia has arrested three other police officers suspected of helping him smuggle cocaine to the US.

"A new Bolivia is being re-founded" said President Evo Morales, who led support for the new constitution.

That resulted in less favorable fiscal regimes for investors in such countries as Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

The new president will have more on his agenda than calling elections and deciding the future of Bolivia's natural resources.

The price rise brought back painful memories of IMF-backed stabilisation plans implemented when Bolivia was bankrupt in the 1980s.

Rich countries would no longer plunder Bolivia's resources.

By July, much of Bolivia was in the grip of severe drought, particularly in the southeast.

In this photo, Bolivia Congressmen and Senators from the MAS (Movement to Socialism) Party visit the flats.

Realism rules out importing gas from energy-rich Bolivia or Peru until the three countries resolve their border disputes.

The remaining population at risk are in 13 countries in Latin America, with Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at greatest risk.

New social actors are mobilizing everywhere, from Bolivia and Venezuela to South Africa and the Persian Gulf.

In Bolivia, the more radical indigenous groups have criticised new gas exploration projects.

Bolivia can ill afford to lose the American market for its manufactures.

Operation Condor was devised in 1975 by military officials from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Such murders have been documented elsewhere in Africa, in Bolivia and in rural India.

Fuel prices in Bolivia have been frozen since before Mr Morales came to power in 2006, even as the world price of oil has surged.

After their victory, Guevara would fight again in the Congo as well as Bolivia.

Escalante was born in nineteen thirty in La Paz, Bolivia. Both his parents were teachers. He taught math.

Others have been sent to Bolivia, to support Evo Morales's government, and to Ecuador.

Floating reed islands bear homes, schools and even a radio station on Lake Titicaca, which rides the border between Bolivia and Peru.

A former commander of Bolivia's anti-narcotics police force has been arrested in Panama on charges of drugs trafficking.

Bolivia and Venezuela have led the way by expelling US Drug Enforcement Administration officials.

Accident occurred near the Bolivian border Chacachaca, Zheliang tourist bus coming from Bolivia, to Peru city Puno.

Some officials said that the arrest was revenge by America's Drug Enforcement Administration for its expulsion from Bolivia in 2008.

There were no walkouts, and just about every country other than Bolivia left reasonably happy.

At the same time, American ambassadors have been expelled from, or not accepted in, Venezuela, Ecuador and (in 2008) Bolivia.

Guevara was killed in Bolivia in 1967 after arriving there in 1966 as part of a plan to spark a revolution.

Bolivia has returned a 700-year-old mummy to Peru, from where it was stolen by antiquities traffickers.

iga said they were "going shopping" in Bolivia and Colombia.

In Bolivia, life is slowly returning to normal after almost a month of demonstrations.

In early July, the largest ever cocaine factory was discovered in eastern Bolivia.

Is a swampy area in the interior of South America, between Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia.

Bolivia's government increased the price of petrol and other fuel by more than 70%, prompting a strike by bus and lorry operators.

That makes it even larger than Lake Titicaca, the vast stretch of water shared by Bolivia and neighbouring Peru.

a Republic in western South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain.

A poll taken in Bolivia's main cities in February by Ipsos-Apoyo showed his approval rating at just 32% (rural areas tend to be more loyal).

South America has one too, squeezed in the tight embrace of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.

As expected, the subsequent sessions were dominated by Bolivia.

The flats, located in Southern Bolivia near the country's Tunupa volcano make up the world's largest salt desert, around 11, 000 km sq.

In May, well into spring, Europe had snow, and baseball sized hail fell in Bolivia and Viet Nam.

If speaks are too many, the climate changes cold, Bolivia works excessively.

Bolivia is the first and only country to ban both wild and domestic animals from traveling circus.

A police band in Bolivia played me out of town.

The palace, built with slabs of salt, stands in the middle of Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt plains.

What explains the extraordinary appeal of Guevara, an Argentine who 40 years ago this week was captured and shot in Bolivia (see article)?

By 8 September, sunny skies had returned and more than 500 fires burned in Bolivia, said the government.

"That's what makes the agrarian revolution in Bolivia different. "

Licancabur volcano is located on the border between Chile and Bolivia.

Bolivia played a great game and hit the target with every attack.

Leaf-green pierid alight on the sandy shores of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.

The indigenous Bolivians who cultivate quinoa are among Bolivia's poorest and many lived until the late 20th century by barter.

A Quan Yin messenger arrived in Bolivia in March to teach the Convenient Method.

Mr Ahmadinejad has also visited Bolivia, where he hugged its populist leader, Evo Morales.

Most people in the world would make no connection between Samsung and the Salar de Uyuni - a spectacular salt desert in southern Bolivia.

Virtually all the world's cocaine comes from Colombia, Bolivia and Peru.

On a solo bike trip from Argentina to Ecuador, Sing, 36, met two companions in southern Bolivia.

That's what happened to Bolivia in Montevideo in 1930, as the World Cup's youngest ever referee took charge.

But politics in Bolivia and the rest of the world is corrupt.

Below, an image from the largest salt flat in the world, Salar de Uyuni, located in southern Bolivia.

There are roughly two million Aymara speakers in Bolivia and almost three million in total in South America.

bolivia , in 16th place , was rated highest among less - developed countries.

But the main part of Bolivia's carnival is getting wet.

From the temples of Egypt, to the Andes mountains of Bolivia and Peru.

Nepal, Eritrea, Laos, Mongolia and Bolivia under-five child mortality rate by 4. 5% every year or more slowed down.

In Bolivia, at the Sucre's Cementerio General, the family pays for a vault upon their loved one's demise: $10, 000 for seven years.

the seat of Bolivia's government; Sucre is the nominal capital.

Bolivia has the famous Sun Island and Moon Island, the island is rich in Indian relics.

The Oruro Carnival lasts for 10 days each year before Lent in the Andes mountains of western Bolivia.

Here in Bolivia it's impossible to make a living from this great passion of mine, Mamani said.

Room rates varied from country to country: US$18 in Veracruz, half that in Bolivia.

Bobby Bolivia: A driver don't pick the cars. Mmm-mm. Cars pick the driver.

This version was deployed in Apr, 1968, and the users include Japan, Argentina, Bolivia, Denmark, Spain, Mexico and Philipin.

Bolivia's customs service says that over 80, 000 vehicles were registered in a fortnight.

Europe, with 164 languages and 18 language families, has significantly less diversity than Bolivia.

In Latin America Iran's president has already exploited anti-American sentiment in countries such as Bolivia, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

La Poderosa's journey ended in a ditch in Chile, Che's in a ditch in Bolivia.

UN meeting OKs climate deal over Bolivia protest.

China already buys tin, zinc and silver from Bolivia.

Founded in1540 on the site of an Incan village, it is the commercial center of southern Peru and northern Bolivia. Population, 108, 023.

To remedy the resulting shortage, the government has sought to expand a pipeline bringing gas from Bolivia.

BBC correspondent says this is the first civilian trial of military officials in Bolivia accused of human rights to reach a conclusion.

November 4, 1993, Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Every Bolivia goal was a stab in my heart.

The Chinese government has granted a $108 million loan to Bolivia's government for the purchase of six helicopters.

Argentina have suffered their worst defeat in more than 60 years, losing 6-1 to Bolivia in a World Cup qualifying game.

She says she would like to be a missionary when she is older, perhaps in Bolivia.

Ankylosaurus lived in Bolivia in South America, in Montana in the United States and in Mexico.

In Bolivia and Peru, some cultivation is legal too.

Different teams work on the Bolivia site and the Brazil site.

More than half the world's lithium reserves lie in Bolivia and Chile.

NARRATOR: Bolivia's politicians were paralyzed. Only one man seemed to know what to do.

China's trade with Bolivia has soared in recent years.

Iran this month offered Bolivia a loan of $280m, in addition to spending $200m on building two cement factories and three milk facilities.

Some developing nations such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Sudan and Cuba oppose the Copenhagen Accord as lacking ambition.

GV: What other things can be done in Bolivia with this "micro-blogging" or "twitts" ?

The 40th minute, after Boteluo dribbles the breakthrough, draws level the score for Bolivia.

Of all the mining products , tin is the most important , which makes up three-fourths of all Bolivia's exports .

Dr Antezana is Senior Adviser in the Ministry of Health and Sports in Bolivia.

Earthquake felt down to La Paz, in Bolivia.

When I was sent off against Bolivia I thought I'd never get selected again.

He says Peru and Bolivia account for as much as 97 percent of global production.

The world's highest national capital, at 11, 800 feet above sea level, La Paz is Bolivia's center for commerce, finance, and industry.

To find out more, Dino Giussani and his team at Cambridge University studied the records of 400 births in Bolivia during 1976 and 1998.

A Bolivia-born jaguar killed a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo in 2007.

But Bolivia is bitterly divided and the level of unrest in the country is troubling.

The Daily Mail of London reported a hotel in Bolivia is made entirely of salt.

Guevara himself was defeated and shot in Bolivia in 1967.

The ambassador said China doesn't intend to buy rights to minerals but rather to cooperate with Bolivia in developing its reserves.

Companies are already looking to lock up access (NYT) in lithium-rich countries such as Chile and Bolivia.

He then flied to Bolivia to play for his country at the Copa America 1997.

But Bolivia has proven that it can do quite well without Washington's co-operation.

Bolivia, a country with just under 12 million people, boasts 37 languages belonging to 18 language families.

This is in Bolivia. Over -- over thirty years.

The vast majority of the world's mined deposits of lithium are in China, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia.

Do you think that blogging is a powerful tool for women in Bolivia?

A city of central Bolivia northeast of Sucre. Founded c. 1560, it is a trade and processing center. Population, 441, 717.

Embassy of the Republic of Bolivia ?

Bolivia, Chipaya Hair Braiding, 1999" Generations of skill flow through nimble fingers as Chipaya women plait another's hair.

I think that blogging is still unknown to many women in Bolivia.

My journey was complete: six months on the road, 16, 000 miles on the clock, a maximum ascent (in Bolivia) of 4, 700 metres.

fern of Peru and Bolivia.

I was inspired to write in order to show what happens among the indigenous peoples of Bolivia.

This year Bolivia stood alone, and the voice of the room spoke against it.

And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel.

Cold wave kills 18 in Bolivia .

But in the continent's poorer countries, such as Honduras, Nicaragua and Bolivia, 30-50% of urban households could not stretch that far.

Recent anti government protests in Bolivia, for example, stem directly from a fear of loss in status.

For Bolivia, this is good news.

The new constitution passed last year calls coca part of Bolivia's "cultural heritage" .

She calls herself a close friend of Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, who is also of indigenous descent.