The Forestry Law of 1996 imposed a tax on sawn lumber and consequently cut Bolivian lumber exports significantly.

As it stood, at the time Brazil was the main destination for exports from Bolivia, having bought, in 2007, 35. 7 % of the products that Bolivian companies sell to other countries.

Economically, the United States has been a long-standing consumer of Bolivian exports and a partner in development projects.

" Believing that gas exports would lift the economy, that a long anticipated transcontinental highway connecting Brazil to Chile would be built passing through the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, and that fibre-optic cables would soon be laid.

Bolivian imports of goods and services were valued at about US $ 5. 3 billion in 2010.

It is the civilian wing of the Bolivian Air Force, operating passenger services to remote towns and communities in the North and Northeast of Bolivia.

It was launched on the Bolivian market in La Paz, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba in mid-April 2010.

Rampant inflation and corruption also have thwarted development, but the last years the fundamentals of its economy showed an impressing improvement leading the major credit rating agencies to an upgrade of Bolivian economy in 2010.

From 2010 to 2011, Bolivian imports rose by 41 % to a total of $ 7. 6 billion.

* Bolivian Indians see Rocky Exodus from Serfdom by the Associated Press, January 2, 2010

The first Bolivian judicial election is scheduled to be held on 5 December 2010.

Hormando Vaca Díez ( born April 30, 1949 ; died February 9, 2010, Warnes, Santa Cruz ) was formerly president of the upper house ( Senate ) of the Bolivian National Congress.

** Jaime Escalante ( 1930 – 2010 ), Bolivian former mathematics teacher

The following day Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez stood in solidarity with his Bolivian allies by ordering the U. S. ambassador Patrick Duddy out of his country, telling him to " go to hell 100 times " and withdrawing the Venezuelan ambassador to the U. S.

In 1984, Bolivian journalist Ted Córdova Claure wrote that the Hotel Bolivar stood as a monument to the decadence of Peruvian oligarchy (" Este hotel es un monumento a la decadencia de la oligarquía peruana .").

Border skirmishes throughout the late 1920s culminated in an all-out war in 1932 when the Bolivian army attacked the Paraguayans at Fort Carlos Antonio López at Lake Pitiantuta.

* February 14 – Chilean troops disembark at Antofagasta, Chile, at the time a Bolivian port.

The largest characin is Hydrocynus goliath at, while the smallest size is about in the Bolivian pygmy blue characin, Xenurobrycon polyancistrus.

The Bolivian Constitution had a lifelong presidency and a hereditary senate, essentially recreating the British unwritten constitution, as it existed at the time, without formally establishing a monarchy.

Inflation has plagued, and at times crippled, the Bolivian economy since the 1970s.

The current boliviano replaced the Bolivian peso at a rate of one million to one in 1987 after many years of rampant inflation.

Bolivia is the third largest producer of cocaine, estimated at 120 metric tons potential pure cocaine in 2007 and a transit country for Peruvian and Colombian cocaine destined for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Europe and the U. S. The Bolivian government, in response to international pressure, has worked to restrict coca cultivation for the use of producing cocaine.

In November 2008, the Bolivian U. N. contingent of peacekeeping troops in Congo DR was relocated to safety, as at least one other regional state was also reviewing its own mission's security.

In the interwar period, at least four flamethrowers were used in the Chaco War by the Bolivian Army, during the unsuccessful assault on the Paraguayan stronghold of Nanawa in 1933.

On 30 December of that same year, a young Bolivian named Ugo Ungaza Villegas damaged the painting by throwing a rock at it.

Among the speakers was Canadian social activist and author Naomi Klein and Bolivian President Evo Morales, who firmly said in his talk, “ We are going to go to the UN to declare that water is a basic public need that must not be managed by private interests, but should be for all people, including people of rural areas .” The Forum was at first plagued with logistical problems, as a number of events had to be canceled at the last minute because of a lack of space, and a student strike against the policies of President Abdoulaye Wade in Diop University interrupted some scheduled plenaries.

The dual gauge car float Manco Capac links PeruRail's standard gauge line at Puno with the Bolivian railways ' meter gauge line at Guaqui.

Since the Bolivian constitution did not at the time allow the election of a sitting president, the general designated a surrogate, officially-supported candidate, General Juan Pereda.

For example, he was present at the inauguration of Evo Morales, the first native American president of Bolivia, and later hosted Bolivian ethnic musicians in the Presidential Palace in Ljubljana.

There is currently no mining plant at the site, and the Bolivian government doesn't want to allow exploitation by foreign corporations.

Martial law was declared, and Bolivian police killed at least 6 people and injured over 170 protesters.

To make matters worse, Salamanca had very poor relations with the Bolivian high command from the beginning of the conflict, when he demoted a Bolivian general and placed the German Hans Kundt at the head of the country's armed forces at war.

He was captured and executed in 1967 by the Bolivian army, and afterwards became an iconic figure for leftists around the world.

The Bolivian Army has around 55, 500 men.

" He went on to argue that the Bolivian government had gained the support of Venezuela and Cuba, as well as socialists around the world, with Morales ' rhetoric, but that the government's policies had failed to actually develop a socialist alternative.

Alan — discovering simultaneously that he cannot avenge himself on Sarah as long as Otto is around and that the European Economic Community is ( in his words ) " a comatose chicken waiting to be plucked " – arranges to have a Bolivian death squad decapitate Otto in bed while Sarah sleeps beside him.

The overall abstention rate was around 40 % ( 10 % higher than normal for Bolivian elections ).

The show has included a diverse and eclectic mix of performers and music from around the world — music and musicians which have included Brazilian choro music from the Robison-Lubambo-Baptista Trio, American gospel group the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers, Latin-American and African carols and folk dances from Andrew Lawrence-King and The Harp Consort, the viol quartet Phantasm, jazz trumpeter Art Farmer, Bolivian Andean music specialists Rumillajta, eclectic composer Mark O ' Connor and the Appalachia Waltz Trio, and African-American Latino wind group Imani Winds.

In 2000 foreign investors contributed US $ 736 million to the Bolivian economy.

As of June 2011, Jindal has invested only US $ 20 million on the project due to considerable delay by Bolivian authorities in issuing land for the project and due to inability of the Bolivian government to commit 8 million cubic meters of natural gas per day for the power plant and ore smelting process.

As industrialized products represented 94. 6 % of Brazilian sales up to September of the year, Bolivian sales in the same period were limited largely to natural gas, which accounted for up to 92. 7 % of the total purchased from the country, or US $ 1. 89 billion.

In 2008 the Bolivian government suspended the operations of the US Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) accusing the organisation of being a front for violating the country's sovereignty and supporting an unsuccessful coup d ' état.

", and Evo Morales, the Bolivian president said " Where there is a US ambassador, there is a coup ".

However, three days before the elections the US ambassador publicly warned the Bolivian people against electing " those who want Bolivia to again be an exporter of cocaine " as it would put in jeopardy US aid to Bolivia.

Around this time the Bolivian government, encouraged by the US, began a program to eradicate most coca production.

Sachs, an economic adviser to the Bolivian government at the time, drew up an extensive plan, later known as shock therapy, to cut inflation drastically by liberalizing the Bolivian market, ending government subsidies, eliminating import quotas, and linking the Bolivian economy to the US dollar.

A large population of Bolivian and Bolivian-descended residents is in the Greater Washington, D. C .- Baltimore – Northern Virginia area of United States ( 2005 US Census estimates 27, 452 +/- 8, 883 Bolivians for DC, Virginia, and Maryland ); the highest concentration is in Arlington County, Virginia.

The airline is in talks with potential US investor William Petty who has signed a memorandum of understanding to invest up to US $ 15 million in the Bolivian carrier.

Bolivian decorations are only rarely awarded to senior U. S. officers, most of those senior US officers have been in the United States Southern Command & United States Southern Command Air Forces Commander usually as " end-of-tour " decorations.