Part II: An Emerging Mining Policy for Bolivia
Future mining concessions eliminated; pre-existing concessions remain intact While stopping short of fully nationalizing the industry, the decree clearly asserts state control over all mineral wealth in the national territory…
Mining Policy in the Morales Administration: Reactivation and Conflict
Part II: An Emerging Mining Policy for Bolivia On May 1, 2007, one year after the “nationalization” of the hydrocarbons industry, Bolivian President Evo Morales declared all Bolivian territory a…
Part 1: Cooperative Miners in the Nationalization Process: Explosive Politics
While stopping short of fully nationalizing the industry, the decree clearly asserts state control over all mineral wealth in the national territory and continues the process of “recovering control” of…
ONDCP Reports No Increase in Coca Cultivation in Bolivia in 2006
Click here to read this joint AIN-WOLA memo in PDF format. On April 25, 2007, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released U.S. estimates of coca cultivation and…