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President Morales signed 3 bills into law yesterday in Sucre at the Universidad Gabriel René Moreno, de Santa Cruz to benefit Bolivian university students. One law guarantees public universities up to 8 percent of the Direct Hydrocarbon Tax for educating rural youth and 5% for cultural and sporting activities, another provides thesis work for students in public institutions and the third provides scholarships for talented youth unable to afford rising paperwork costs associated with...

The Bolivian department of La Paz has the most obese people in Bolivia at 3,387 of clinical obesity, Cochabamba (2,211 cases), ahead of Santa Cruz (2,032), and Chuquisaca (812 cases). Up to 2012, the Bolivian Health Ministry considered obesity to be an aesthetic problem but now classifies it as a disease with a distinct pathology. “24% of the Bolivian population that visits Health Ministry control points has grade one or two obesity,” said a Health Ministry Representative. The...

Jindal Steel Bolivia, a subsidiary of the giant multi-national Jindal Group of India, has announced it will be abandoning its share of the largest iron ore deposit in the world, El Mutún, and breaking off its contract with the Bolivian government after months of fractious dialogue. Jindal announced that it will be initiating international arbitration against Bolivia. The government accuses Jindal of being behind schedule and not making the investments it promised while Jindal insists that...