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Bolivian opposition leader released from jail after nearly 3 years in pretrial detention
WTOP - District Columbia
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August 29, 2025
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho was released from jail on Friday after spending almost… LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho was released from jail on Friday after spending...
Bolivia Jailed Opposition
The Goshen News - Indiana
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A shepherdess waits to enter a jail with her sheep in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, before opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho is released after being allowed house arrest after almost three years in pretrial detention for his...
Excarcelan al suspendido gobernador y líder opositor boliviano Luis Fernando Camacho
Los Angeles Times
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August 29, 2025
LA PAZ, Bolivia — El líder opositor boliviano y gobernador suspendido de Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, fue excarcelado el viernes tras permanecer en prisión preventiva casi tres años por su presunta participación en las protestas de 2019 que...
Family of dad, 39, who suddenly died next to wife on flight home from birthday trip stuck in legal nightmare over body
The U.S. Sun
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August 29, 2025
A DEVASTATED family says they’re trapped in a legal maze after a 39-year-old dad died beside his wife on a flight home. His body is still overseas, and red tape stands in the way of bringing him back. 4 39-year-old Andres Castro died of a heart...
Nationalism as the last refuge of poor governance
Latinoamerica21
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August 29, 2025
In Latin America, maps are redrawn more quickly in campaign speeches than in the offices of foreign ministries. Santa Rosa Island, now at the center of tension between Peru and Colombia, is just the latest chapter in a well-worn regional recipe:...
Bolivia's Gas Exports at Crossroads After MAS Defeat
Oil Price
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August 28, 2025
The Bolivian presidential election is poised to have a profound impact on the country's natural gas sector, with significant implications for its commercial relationships with neighboring Argentina and Brazil. As both leading presidential...
Cosmos Exploration nabs DLE pilot plant to test Bolivian lithium brines
Stockhead
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August 29, 2025
The deal strengthens EAU’s development pathway and enhances the strategic exposure of Cosmos to the Bolivian brine testing project. Pic: Getty Images. C1X optioned entity EAU Lithium acquires A-DLE pilot plant from Vulcan Energy Resources...
Investornewsbreaks New Pacific Metals Corp. (NYSE American: NEWP) (TSX: NUAG) Unearths Modern Potential In Bolivia's Silver Story
MENAFN
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August 28, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) New Pacific (NYSE American: NEWP) (TSX: NUAG) , a Canadian mineral exploration and development company, is positioning for opportunity in Bolivia's silver story, which is centuries old, yet its richest regions have...
Global Disinformation Summit to take on elections, scams and war
LatAm Journalism Review
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August 28, 2025
By César López Linares August 28, 2025 Influence operations in wars through disinformation, the use of manipulated content to commit scams, and the inclusion of the Portuguese language and disinformation issues in Brazil are the main new features...
A worker walks between two industrial evaporation pools at a lithium production facility in the Uyuni Salt Flats in Potosí, Bolivia.
Buenos Aires Times
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August 28, 2025
The man vying to become Bolivia’s first elected right-wing president in two decades is promising to kick-start exploitation of the world’s joint-biggest lithium deposits after more than a decade of false starts. If he wins an October 19 run-off,...
Bagley Cartoon: Governing From the Bottom Up
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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Governing From the Bottom Up | Pat Bagley A Pulitzer Prize finalist in the cartoonist category, Pat Bagley has worked for The Salt Lake Tribune for more than 45 years. He is one of roughly a dozen cartoonists still working at a major metropolitan...
Bolivia: Highland community gathers to protect river from cooperative mining
Latin American Bureau
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August 28, 2025
In the Bolivian highlands, the Indigenous community of Cala Cala is waging a battle to defend the headwaters of its river from mining. What began as a peaceful demand for dialogue has escalated into violence, abductions, and legal battles. At...
14-year-old Ghanaian reaches North Pole on international Arctic expedition
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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August 28, 2025
By Mabel Adorkor Annang Fourteen-year-old Kenneth Majdoub has made history as the youngest Ghanaian to reach the geographic North Pole after taking part in the sixth Nuclear Icebreaker of Knowledge international Arctic expedition. Kenneth joined...
EarthLabs Expeditions, Bolivia's Mountains of Silver and Tin
The Kingston Whig-Standard
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August 28, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Article content Industry-first, ‘off-the-beaten-path’ travel documentary series focused on junior mining, celebrating the spirit of ingenuity and resilience that drives the industry Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp....
Bolivia's former President (2001-2002) and presidential candidate Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga speaks during an interview with AFP on August 25, 2025, in La Paz, Bolivia.
Buenos Aires Times
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August 26, 2025
Bolivian right-wing presidential hopeful Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga on Monday vowed to scrap billion-dollar lithium extraction deals struck by the outgoing government with Russia and China if elected leader. "We don't recognise [outgoing President Luis]...
Bolivia: a second chance for the traditional political elite
Latinoamerica21
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August 27, 2025
Bolivia’s election results, beyond triumphalist or fatalistic interpretations from either side of the ideological spectrum, signal two key points. First, that the country’s liberal institutions still maintain a degree of health, and second, that...
In La Paz Italian-Bolivian exhibition 'Territorio interior'
ANSA
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August 26, 2025
The exhibition "Territorio interior" created by Italian director, writer and playwright Fabrizio Catalano together with Bolivian artists Fatima Lazarte and Yefrin Acuña is open on the premises of the "Simon Patiño" cultural center in La Paz. The...
End of Bolivia's leftist era leaves Chinese and Russian lithium deals in limbo
BNE Intellinews
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Bolivia's October presidential runoff, following the August election that ended two decades of leftist governance, has become a contest not only between centrist and right-wing political traditions but also over the management of the country's...
US Counterinsurgency Wins in Bolivia:
Change Links - California
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August 28, 2025
Intentional Factionalism Within MAS and the Capture of the Lithium Triangle Clau O’Brien Moscoso, Black Alliance for Peace https://orinocotribune.com [Excerpts] On Sunday August 17, 2025, the first round of presidential elections in the...
BOLIVIA: ‘Whoever takes office will inherit a divided country and will have to break with…
CIVICUS
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Interviews 22 August 2025 Ahead of Bolivia’s runoff presidential election, CIVICUS discusses the political landscape with Gabriela Keseberg Dávalos, a Bolivian-German political scientist. Bolivia’s 17 August presidential election, held in a...