Pdvsa to start drilling in Bolivia in 2011 
| El Universal, October 1, 2010 -- After five years operating in Bolivia, the state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) will carry out its first exploration drilling in the Timboy X2 well, which has gas potential |  |
Ahmadinejad embraces ties with Bolivia
| Press Tv, September 30, 2010 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed Iran's readiness to further expand bilateral relations with Bolivia in various sectors. |  |
Bolivia's Morales: law lets him seek re-election
| Associated Press, September 29, 2010 -- President Evo Morales says Bolivia's new constitution will let him seek another five-year term in 2014 even though opposition leaders insist the document rules out re-election. |  |
Iran, Bolivia call for expansion of ties
| Tehran Times, September 29, 2010 -- The Islamic Republic of Iran News Network (IRINN) quoted Ali-Akbar Mehrabian as saying that Iran will establish a production line for tractors as well as dairy and textile factories in that country. |  |
"There will be no Forgiveness or Forgetting," Correa Promises Victory
| La Prensa, October 1, 2010 -- "Neither forgive nor forget," promisedthe president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, this morning after being rescued by military forces in a command move that broke the ten-hour kidnap imposed by rebel police in a hospital in Quito. |  |
Journalists from Seven Regions are Mobilizing Against "Gag Law"
| La Prensa, October 1, 2010 -- Journalists from Tarija, PotosÃ, Sucre, Oruro, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz and Montero will be mobilized today to demand the removal of Articles 16 and 24 of the draft Law Against Racism. |  |
"Vice" Confirms: Torture Case goes to Justice
| Los Tiempos, October 01, 2010 -- Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera yesterday dismissed the controversy over the jurisdiction of ordinary courts and military courts on the cases of torture of a soldier in the Ranger Regiment of Challapata, Oruro, which occurred last year, but in recent days revealed the issue through images broadcast by a television channel. |  |
Another Video Confirms Acts of Violence by the Military
| La Razon, October 1, 2010 -- Two days after the Unitel network broadcasted a video in which abuses are observed from a group of soldiers against a conscript in Oruro, the network PAT issued yesterday images of military training in Santa Cruz, with similar practices. Armed Forces authorities claimed that these practices were banished from the institution, while Vice President Alvaro Garcia said the military training is hard "and that those who are in this race are not Ursuline nuns." |  |