Reuters | Washington - The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a controversial loan for a Bolivian company partly controlled by bankrupt U.S.
Bolivia
Environmentalists Criticize Bolivian President’s DC Visit to Help Enron and Shell Win $125 Million in Public Funds from Development Bank
Available through AP-TN: Video Footage of Bolivia Pipeline ImpactsPipeline Damage Report and Video Available Upon Request also see PhotosWashington, D.C.
Gasoducto Cuiabá: Impactos Sociales y Ambientales en el Bosque Chiquitano
Descarga el informe en el formato PDF (175 kb)La Organización Indígena Chiquitana (O.I.CH.) y la Coordinadora de Pueblos Étnicos de Santa Cruz (CPESC) realizan desde el año 1999 el seguimiento al Proy
ENRON-Backed Bolivian Gas Project Set to Get IDB Aid
Bloomberg News | An Enron Corp.-backed project to expand a Bolivian gas pipeline may get as much as $170 million from the Inter-American Development Bank, 10 months after the company's bankruptcy triggered U.S.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Beg, Borrow, and Deal What about Enron-Related Government Projects?
FORTUNE | Enron is famous (infamous?) for many things. One of them is its faith in free markets. Not anymore. An Enron-led consortium in Bolivia called Transredes has applied for a $125 million loan from the U.S.-backed Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Enron's Pipeline Pain
Latin Trade | It’s a long way from energy town Houston, Texas, to the dry rainforests of eastern Bolivia. Yet the political heat generated by two governments’ investigations of failed U.S. energy trader Enron is blasting through the Bolivian jungle just the same, like the 628-kilometer gas pipeline Enron built here with U.S.
El Llamado de la Selva
Latin Trade | Existe una gran distancia entre Houston, Texas, y las selvas de la zona este de Bolivia.
Letter to the IDB
July 10, 2002 July 9, 20029 de Julio, 2002 May 26, 2002 May 6, 2002 Juan E. NotaroExecutive DirectorBolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay Inter-American Development Bank1300 New York Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20577Dear Mr.
Letter to the OPIC Board of Directors
OPIC Board of Directors:Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, Agency for International Development Gary A. Barron, President, Strategic Alliance Partners Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Melvin E.
Letter to the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Planning
Ramiro Cavero Uriona, MinisterHernán Cabrera, Vice-MinisterMinistry of Sustainable Development and PlanningAv. Mariscal Santa Cruz Esq. Oruro Edificio de la Ex-Comibol 6 PisoCasilla 12814 La PazBoliviaDear Mr. Cavero Uriona and Mr.
Ministerio de Desarrollo Sostenible y Planificación
Ramiro Cavero Uriona, MinistroHernán Cabrera, Vice-MinistroMinisterio de Desarrollo Sostenible y PlanificaciónAv. Mariscal Santa Cruz Esq.
Cosdena Rejects Chilean Port Option for LNG - Regional
BNamericas.com | Bolivia's national defense council Cosdena has rejected the choice of a port in Chile to handle exports of Bolivian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to North America, according to Bolivian newspaper Los Tiempos. Cosdena rejected the Chilean option for strategic reasons, and recommended the choice of a port in Peru.
Enron Keeps Role in Bolivia Pipeline Project Criticism Grows -- Records Missing
Chronicle Foreign Service | La Paz, Bolivia - Despite Enron Corp.'s financial collapse in the United States, the Houston energy giant is alive and well in Bolivia, wheree it continues to play a major and highly controversial role in the nation's burgeoning natural gas industry.
Bolivia: Proposed Constitutinal Reforms Spark a Nationwide March for "Popular Sovereignty, Territory and Natural Resources"
Democracy Now | Thousands of Bolivians are marching toward the capital to protest a series of neo-liberal reforms proposed by the government. The indigenous and campesino marchers have been walking for nearly a month, beginning in the Amazon basin and snaking their way hundreds of miles up to the capital, La Paz.
Bolivia: Proposed Constitutional Reforms Spark Unprecedented Nationwide March Marchers Demand Democratic Assembly to Halt Reforms That Favor Foreign Corporations Photos available upon request
Cochabamba, Bolivia - For nearly a month, approximately 2000 indigenous and campesino men, women and children have been marching hundreds of miles from the Amazon basin to the capital city of La Paz in the Andes.
OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC (Translated by Shanti Michaels)
SeñorIng. Jorge Quiroga RamírezConstitutional President of BoliviaLa PazREF: THE CUIABÁ PIPELINE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CHIQUITANO FOREST.Mr.
El "Ahorro" de la Enron
Los Tiempos | ¿No tenía el Gobierno el poder suficiente para impedir que el gasoducto a Cuiabá, tendido por Enron, dañara el bosque chiquitano? Por supuesto que sí. Pero no hizo nada.
La Enron Golpea de Nuevo Humberto Vacaflor*
La Razon | Los pecados de la Enron no dejan de sorprender. Ahora se sabe que sobornó a unas ONG ecologistas que operaban en Brasil y EEUU para poder construir un gasoducto en tierras bolivianas.La denuncia fue refrescada por el Washington Post, pero es tan antigua como el gasoducto a Cuiabá.
Por el Ilegal Desvío de la Ruta del Gasoducto Cuiabá Enron Ahorró 70 Millones
La Prensa | Un grupo de parlamentarios denunció que la empresa Enron evitó invertir 70 millones de dólares en la construcción del gasoducto Cuiabá mediante el desvío de su trayecto original, que además dañó el bosque de la chiquitania.La denuncia fue conocida ya en 2000.
Ex Ministro Reyes Villa Avaló Tendido del Ducto a Cuiabá
El Deber | Santa Cruz de la Sierra - BoliviaIMPACTO. La ex viceministra de Medio Ambiente, Neysa Roca, dijo que la obra se tenía que hacer pese a la depredación. “Es el costo del desarrollo” justificó.
Para la Construcción del Gasoducto a Cuiabá El Gobierno Tenía la Facultad de Negar la Licencia a Enron
La Prensa | La Paz, Bolivia - El ex viceministro de Energía Carlos Alberto López negó rotundamente que su despacho hubiera sido responsable de la licencia ambiental que el gobierno otorgó a Enron para el tendido del gasoducto a Cuiabá en el bosque chiquitano, uno de los dos más valiosos de Latinoamérica.Si bien López recon
Maniobras de Enron afectaron bosque Daño - El Bosque Seco Chiquitano Quedó Partido en Dos con el Gasoducto
El Deber | Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia - Las numerosas maniobras políticas en Washington que Enron realizara antes de su quiebra para la construcción del gasoducto a Cuiabá, podrían tener las más graves consecuencias en el Bosque Seco Chiquitano.Habiendo logrado un financiamiento norteamericano de $us 200 millones, Enro
The Washington Post Denuncia Maniobras de Enron
La Prensa | Contra la naturaleza: millones de dólares destruyen el medio ambiente El gasoducto a Cuiabá destruyó bosques vírgenes de la ChiquitaniaUna grave denuncia contra la otrora gran multinacional Enron, acerca de la construcción del gasoducto a Cuiabá —en selvas vírgenes de Bolivia—, fue difundida ayer por el diar
Enron Pipeline Leaves Scar on South America Lobbying, U.S. Loans Put Project on Damaging Path
The Washington Post | Of Enron Corp.'s many political maneuvers in Washington before its fall into bankruptcy, winning the promise of federal financing for a 390-mile pipeline from Bolivia to Brazil through the Chiquitano Dry Tropical Forest may have the most enduring consequences.With that pledge of $200 million in U.S.
Debate hinders pipeline-mitigation initiative
In 1999, when Enron and partner Shell were seeking loan guarantees from the U.S. government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for their Cuiabá natural gas pipeline here, they answered environmental opposition with conservation pledges.
ENRON-Backed Bolivian Gas Pipeline in Line for Loan from IDB
Bloomberg News | An Enron Corp. project is in line to get a $125 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to expand a Bolivian gas pipeline, even as the bankrupt company is shunned by other taxpayer-funded lenders.Enron's bankruptcy, the largest in U.S.
OPIC Reviewing Enron Transactions, Seeks Assistance from Justice Department
The Bureau of National Affairs | The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is reviewing its Enron-related financing and political risk insurance transactions, and has asked the Justice Department for help, OPIC officials said March 7.OPIC President Peter S.
U.S. Loaned Enron Millions Every Request Got Initial OK
USA TODAY | When Enron asked about U.S. loans for its international ventures, the government's foreign-investment agency answered – with promises of more than $ 1 billion. The Overseas Private Investment Corp.
