Sucre, Bolivia News

The Latin American Herald Tribune reports on the ALBA summit: ALBA Strengthens Trade Alliance, Ratifies Struggle Against the "Empire" The treaty for a Unified Regional Compensation System, or SUCRE, was the most important economic measure approved at the presidential meeting.

The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas , an association of the Latin American trade bloc, agreed to stop using U.S. dollars for regional commerce from next year, AP reported Saturday.

That'll be the real switch. Everything that's used to create food, for instance, will have to be bought and sold using regional currency.

Leftist Latin American leaders agreed here Friday on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar.

Wazzup with all the different types of bus stations in Bolivia? Did you that know at bus stations in Bolivia you usually can't reserve bus tickets in advance? Here in Bolivia there are dozens of bus companies.

La Paz, Oct 10 Cuban ambassador to Bolivia Rafael Dausa highlighted Saturday the scopes of the 7th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas from October 16 to 17 in Cochamba city.

Churches abound in Bolivia and Roman Catholicism is the dominant religion. According to the last census over 90% of Bolivians consider themselves Catholic, although many other religions are present in Bolivia as well.

La Paz, Oct 6 The Bolivian district attorney, Roger Velasquez, ordered Tuesday the arrest of the opposition prefect of Chusquisaca, Savina Cuellar, for refusing to appear before the attorney general''s office in this city, accused of alleged corruption.

The Land Rover G4 Challenge crosses Bolivia this week. It's a perilous journey. Jeremy Hart knows - he reccied the route Barely a decade ago, a revolution came to the Bolivian village of Terevinto.

Sucre, Bolivia, Aug 25 The public hearing against Bolivian ex President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada , due to the massacre on October, 2003, was postponed for September 1, government sources said on Tuesday.

Managua, Aug 12 The Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our Americas will discuss on Wednesday in this capital about the Regional Single Compensation System .

A lovely whitewashed colonial city, and the judicial capital of Bolivia. We visited Bolivias version of the White House which contained Bolivias declaration of Independence, the first flag etc.

A lovely whitewashed colonial city, and the judicial capital of Bolivia. We visited Bolivias version of the White House which contained Bolivias declaration of Independence, the first flag etc.

Bolivian Independence Day is August 6th each year. The country gained its freedom from Spain after several centuries of occupation and celebrated by signing the Declaration of Independence on August 6th, 1825.

Wednesday, 5 August 2009, 4:19 pm Press Release: US Department of State - Background Note July 2009 Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs PROFILE OFFICIAL NAME: Plurinational State of Bolivia Geography Area: 1.1 million sq.

La Paz, Aug 3 The Human Rights Commission of the Lower Chamber in Bolivia renews Monday a hearing to take statements by new suspects in abuses to peasants occurred in the city of Sucre on May 24, 2008.

La Paz, Jul 31 Bolivian Vice-President and President of the Bolivian Congress Alvaro Garcia convened Friday a solemn session for the 6th of August in Sucre, to mark Independence Day in Bolivia.

A Quechua Indian who grew up herding sheep and pigs in the highlands, she is chief executive of Chuquisaca Department and a member of the ruling Movement Toward Socialism party, or MAS.

Ze Sucre jsme prejeli soukromym autobusem do Potosi maleho mesta na jihu Bolivie.

La Paz, Jul 2 Bolivian Chamber of Deputies'' Human Rights Commission denounced on Thursday obstacles placed by the Prefecture of Chuquisaca, where the racist actions of May 24, 2008 are under investigation.