Bolivia’s naive foreign policy

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Naive foreign policy Bolivia now has deteriorated relations with USA, Brazil, Argentina and, one might say, also Peru, for the suspension of the presidential meeting that was to take place last week. The U.S. Charge d’affaires [DCM], Harry Mammott, just left for his country “for personal reasons”, which means…

Bolivian History 101: The capitulation of Puerto Alonso

Luis S Crespo wrote in El Diario, January 24, 1923: The capitulation of Puerto Alonso After the founding of Puerto Alonso on the Acre River, the national delegate had issued measures to establish sovereignty in these remote regions. With the Decree of January 4, 1899 it was declared ‘open to merchant navigation of all nations…

Current Bolivian pluri-multi-State is not to be trusted…

ANSA reports from Sao Paulo for Pagina Siete: Brazil SABOIA said that Bolivia “is the far West” The diplomat Eduardo Saboia, who helped the illegal leak of Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto of the Embassy of Brazil in La Paz, said yesterday that Bolivia for Brazilian entrepreneurs is the “far West” and the more difficult of…

Senator Pinto’s repercussions on our relations with Brazil

Carlos Cordero writes in El Deber: Thanks to Pinto While Roger Pinto, Senator for the Department of Pando, had been held at the Embassy of Brazil in La Paz, political and diplomatic relations between the States has remained at a standstill for more than 15 months. When the news became public, that Pinto had managed…

Why Brazil “allows” current Bolivian gov bravado?

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Dilma, Evo, hatreds and OAS On May 1, 2006, Dilma Rousseff was the Minister of Energy of Lula da Silva and received a bucket of cold water from the spectacle of ‘nationalization’ offered by the new Government of Evo Morales in the San Alberto field. She came to Bolivia…

And Bolivia continues to lose its natural markets…

This time, Brazil shows clearly that we are not reliable, that Bolivia is not to be trusted! They prefer to pay more for their energy rather than trusting current Bolivian government that does not honor, nor respects international laws, let alone foreign investment. Lidia Mamani reports for Pagina Siete: The neighboring country will process up…