La Paz, the representatives of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) and the Confederation South American Football (CONMEBOL) scored positive on Thursday as the first step in solving the problems in football meeting with Bolivian President Evo Morales, which was held early Thursday in the Government Palace. Without going into details of what they considered a meeting privately with the Head of State, the delegates of the FIFA and CONMEBOL concurred that addressed all the items proposed in the letter, which requested an audience with the president. Although they recognized that arrived in the country for the purpose of "altering the internal structure of Bolivian law," referring to the tax liability that threatens to bankrupt the Bolivian Federation football and that is, at present, the major concern of that entity.  "We want to announce that we have the meeting agreed with the president and has been a meeting where we have come to try to unify the differences in the Bolivian football today, the meeting was very specific and we're happy, "summed up the vice president of CONMEBOL, the Uruguayan Eugenio Figueredo. | The Uruguayan leader said he discussed several topics, but with the respect they have for the regulations, by laws which are the countries, which said that FIFA and CONMEBOL can not intervene. "We're going step by step, we are now trying to find a solution," said Primo Corvaro meanwhile, Commissioner of the FIFA, saying the idea is to help the Federation Bolivian "out of the impasse of the moment."
"Our purpose is to try to find a solution so that the federation can continue to exist and work and develop the game," he said.
At the insistence of journalists on probable agreements on the issue of tax liability, the leaders insisted that they "discussed the problem and no concrete measures were agreed upon."
"We're pleased with the meeting because he has been a very good and sympathy of the President towards the development of sport in country. We leave with a few things to work and we will have contacts in the future, "summed Figueredo.
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Figueredo and avoided talking about reports of a split in the Bolivian football and the alleged irregular reelection current owner of the FBF, Carlos Chávez, because said they are internal matters of Bolivian football.
Morales says FBF must respect rules and pay your tax liability FIFA and CONMEBOL
| Cochabamba, BOLVIA, President Evo Morales revealed that one of the main conclusions a meeting held early Thursday in La Paz with leaders of FIFA and CONMEBOL, to discuss the problems of Bolivian football is that the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) must respect the rules and pay your tax liability. The Head of State emphasized the position of The international soccer officials hailed that "happily respect Bolivian norms", recalling that Bolivia "live off the taxes and hydrocarbons." "They understood perfectly. Your order is to find a legal figure not finish the headquarters of the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF), told a news conference.  National Tax Authority reported last week that the building of the FBF will be auctioned on 20 September by a million-dollar tax debt that borders Bolivia 50 million, with interest and penalties. | "We all have rights and duties. We must fulfill our duties that is not in debate. They understood perfectly the leaders of FIFA, where we have a great friendship", he concluded, referring to several visits to the headquarters of that institution in Zurich, where he met with president Sepp Blatter, a crusade that led in defense of football in high and against the veto was intended to implement. "I repeat here the rules are respected by both the Bolivian Football Federation has to pay their taxes. That's the conclusion we've come," he said.
In his view, the millionaire tax liability originated in the "irresponsibility of the leaders", recalling that they were given many deadlines to rectify these balances, in addition to the FBF is a private institution and as such, must pay taxes.
The president met at the Government Palace with the emissary of the FIFA, Primo Carvaro, with the vice president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), Eugenio Figueredo and Uruguayan President Paraguayan Football Federation, Juan Angel Naput.
Cochabamba Bolivia will become the political heart of South America (Morales) Bolivia
| | | | | Cochabamba BOLIVIA Cochabamba City (403 km east of La Paz) will become the political heart of America when it begins to operate the South American Parliament in the central region of Bolivia, said on Tuesday President Evo Morales. In a press conference, the president said the presidents of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) decided that Cochabamba is built seat of Parliament in this process of integration and cooperation and stone thousand of the building was laid in October 2008. The construction will be erected in the population San Benito, 35 kilometers from the city of Cochabamba.  The Head of State on Tuesday to attend celebrations of the bicentenary of Cochabamba. | In expressing his respect and gratitude to Cochabamba, where he lived much of his life, especially in the tropics of the department, Morales said that when he was young he moved from his native Orinoca to capital of the valley and then to the area of \u200b\u200bChapare in search of better living conditions. "When I got this apartment, located in central Bolivia, never I thought of a union leader and then president of Bolivia, "he said.
stressed that thanks to social movements and some journalists began to meet friends from Cochabamba Bolivia," to the point that this was my school leader. "
said that as president he seeks to steer a number of development projects for the department, located 500 kilometers from La Paz, in the valleys of Bolivia.
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One of the projects to be considered viable in the near future in Cochabamba is building another international airport in the population Chimore in the region of El Chapare.
He said that until December the project will be approved and funding for the construction of this airport, which will add to that existing in the city of Cochabamba.
"There are regions in Bolivia that are potential to promote sustainable development, such as the Chapare (Cochabamba), Uyuni (Potosí) and Puerto Suárez (Santa Cruz) who have these conditions and therefore the Government has decided to build international airports, "he said.
In the Chapare there is significant potential agriculture, while Uyuni lithium hosts large deposits of iron and Puerto Suárez.
The Head of State added that in Chimoré also begin to operate the School of helicopter pilots.
"Until today the Air Force officers from Bolivia who graduate from the Military Aviation School must travel to the United States or Canada to specialize in the use of helicopters, while the new school probably pilots from other countries come to specialize, "he said. Another
remarks made by the Head of State referred to the construction of the pipeline Carrasco-Cochabamba, whose construction is in its first phase, to supply this energy to various departments of Bolivia.
He said this project was under the responsibility of the multinational Transredes, whose executives came to ask the State guarantees access to a credit of $ 100 million, if construction was expected this pipeline.
"After the nationalization of hydrocarbons, in May 2006, the Government took charge of this project is development stage and without the State incurred financial obligations to credit agencies, "he added.
reiterated the importance of coordination exists between the provincial authorities with the national government to discuss development projects and seek sources of funding, not as in the past, when some prefects and mayors were reluctant to channel their works simply by ideological differences without considering the benefit to its inhabitants.
acting by the diversion of the Rio Mauri
| | | | | analyze complaint about alleged diversion of the river Mauri, Peru (ABI) La Paz, the Senate and the Foreign Ministry shall decide on the diversion River water Mauri in Peru, Bolivia because it affects families, said Tuesday the president of the International Policy Committee of the Senate, Fidel Surco, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS). "The International Policy Committee regrets this development and on Tuesday we will issue a statement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "he said. 
" It is true that the river rises in its territory, but under international law, being of course of study can not be diverted causing serious injury to the people of Bolivia "he said. For his part, Senator of the opposition Progressive Plan for Bolivia (PPB) and former Army Gen. Marcelo Antezana, said that the Commission will be expected of advisers Chancery rule to find the best solution to the problem. | indicated that almost whole committee of advisers to Chancellor David Choquehuanca is composed of former foreign ministers. remarked that "this problem is not new, dating back a long way", however we expect a good solution. "
" I insist that while we a weak state with a military with a weak deterrent, will always make us this kind of abuse, "he said.
pointed out that there is international law, treaties and conventions conceptual use, Regarding the amount of water can be diverted for use in agriculture and livestock.
"If it exceeds those percentages, there are problems and should seek the best solutions within the framework of good relations," he said.
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| Bentanzos, San Antonio and Potosi, BOLIVIA, (ABI ) .- "We no longer have to eat and we can not leave or back, "yells a man who looks to both sides of the road cut in an attempt to ascertain what has just declared a radius of La Paz, via cell phone. There are many people tense on the road linking north to Betanzos Potosi isolated from the rest of Bolivia by cutting routes and a general strike that left half a million dollars in losses each day and it turned the mythical mountain city, world famous for its Cerro Rico, in a prison for 40 foreign tourists. The crackdown meets for two weeks and the dome of San Luis Potosí Civic Committee, galvanizing the pressure and that seems to have the frying pan by the handle, systematically avoids dialogue that the government of Evo Morales amid expensive and exasperating situation, even for the unserved population of Potosi. The situation on the roads for stranded passengers is unfortunate calamity.  "Imagine, I have two children, no more diapers (disposable) and no water nearby and the children are scalded, Jacqueline is stranded at the height of a point known as San Antonio, says afraid because activists monitored the protest threatening, some of them with dynamite cylinders shoulder, cut anyone escape routes. | The situation is no better in the Potosí city of about 150,000 inhabitants and 550 km from La Paz and 150 km from Sucre, Bolivia's capital and home to a frustrated dialogue yesterday. There is no food in schools and the money supply has lost its main value in exchange for goods to survive.
is as close to "vital reluctance" that occurred in seventeenth-century Potosí, against the mainland authority as opposed to "irrational use of black and Indian slaves for mineral extraction, "reports on a man who says he knows" like the palm of the hand "the history of this city, which declines to reveal his name to avoid" retaliation. "
In 15-day strike everything is scarce. There is no money in ATMs clinics. The trade has been closed by the pressure of the "Committees" and how little or much that he has sold, by the prayers of housewives who roam the streets slopes of the oldest city in Bolivia in search of food.
The local hospitals and private clinics are lifeless.
No drugs in place and the families of the sick call even placebos to mitigate the evils of their own.
"There are no drugs in the pharmacy," laments a stooped old man who claims not to remember "in the last 60 years such a serious situation like this."
Some village women home made cookies or traditional 'tawas', 'buns' and appealing 'hat' with which the population replaces the battle to speed up bread for breakfast or a traditional tea mid-afternoon.
"A bad hunger there is no bad bread," gloated a woman who has requested 10 'tawas' to alleviate hunger spoken of his three offspring.
These products "fly", literally, from the hands of any retailers who are located at strategic points on the slopes of the city to avoid detection by the sentries of the Civic Committee Potosina that have earned the bad reputation of "predators."
On the roads to and from the city of Potosi, there are 700 trucks paralyzed.
situation more dramatic the live 40 European tourists virtually prisoners of the Civic Committee Potosina.
These include a 4 French civic organization in absentia flatly refuses to release despite pleas from the Paris Embassy in La Paz they even sent a helicopter to rescue, especially to a woman with altitude sickness cardiac and respiratory conditions.
The crackdown goes ahead despite warnings from national authorities in relation to the harm he does to emerging local inbound tourism industry.
In addition to the Cerro Rico, operated out of breath from the sixteenth century, when Potosi was one of the biggest cities in the world, much as Paris or London, the Mint, the first minting of the New World and architectural pieces such as the Basilica San Francisco, are at risk of losing the thirst of the visitors are convinced that this city of narrow cobblestone streets trapped in a bubble of legend, remains as such for three or four centuries.
What could trigger tension in Potosí is the announced decision, by the protesters, from power generation facilities for the San Cristobal mine, the largest open pit silver and zing of Bolivia, which manages Japan's Sumitomo in the extreme west of the department on the border with Chile.
Potosina Civic Committee demand that the Bolivian government roads, metal smelters and from four points of a request that President Evo Morales says ready to meet and actually is on the way realization, requires resources and policies to keep in its natural state the peak of Cerro Rico in danger of collapse.
also a secular solution to boundary dispute on the border of Potosí with the neighboring department of Oruro, where the Morales government is seeking to build a cement plant near a limestone quarry, the main raw material for manufacturing the forger.
The crisis situation has been reported internationally and the United Nations has denounced the violation of human rights in Potosi and the roads that link the Andean department to the south and southeast Bolivia.
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The Office of the High Commissioners of the United Nations for Human Rights (OHCHR-Bolivia) supported the request Wednesday, the Bolivian Ombudsman that Potosi strengthen dialogue and warned that the blockade for more than 13 days because serious and "massive human rights violations."
"The blockade and other measures of protest, which lasts for thirteen days (through Tuesday), are causing serious and massive violations of human rights of victims being broad sectors Potosi population. In particular have been seriously injured the right to free movement, health, education and economic and social rights of the most vulnerable, "said UN in a newspaper published in Bolivia requested.
The OHCHR appealed to the authorities of the region, leading the protest and social partner organizations, to restore the free movement of persons and goods of prime necessity.
"Although the claims are legitimate, it is essential to respect the rule of law and democratic institutions for the promotion and realization," notes the letter.
In addition, the bank chief of the opposition National Unity, Jaime Navarro, on Wednesday called for the intervention of the Legislature Multi-national strike Potosí.
"More than any other issue, the Legislature should propose quick solutions," said the deputy, when he stated that the joint session of deputies and senators scheduled for Thursday, modify your schedule and prioritize analysis of the regional conflict.
The government rebuffed several times by the San Luis Potosí Civic Committee, in its unwavering intention to open a dialogue without pressure, has reported that public investment in Potosí edge so far this year the 200 million dollars, including five to six times more than in 2005.
As an example of government management, Public Works Minister, Walter Delgadillo, announced on Wednesday that Bolivia's first tourist airport, built in Uyuni, in the department of Potosí, will be delivered to end of the year and said it has a gain of more than 80%.
By way of his Minister of Government, Sacha Llorenti, the Morales administration reaffirmed its decision not to intervene, except by way of the police, the civic strike and roadblocks in Potosi.
The presidential spokesman, Ivan Canelas, and ministers Llorenti and Jose Pimentel, Mining latter warned of the political background of the Civic Committee Potosina systematically blocking the dialogue with the Government.
After a move to refer aborted dialogue between government and the Committee Potosina Canelas identified some political leaders of opposition parties such as the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario ultra-liberal and conservative Democratic and Social Power, right-wing former president Jorge Quiroga, both marginal in the national context. Also
Social Alliance (AS), mayor of Potosi, René Joaquino, populist and Civic Solidarity Union, a litany in the traditional native games, of having colluded to "create conditions of confrontation without thinking about the interests of the people of Potosi. " Canelas
identified Gonzalo Barrientos Alvarado, Amilcar Barral, Marco Antonio Villa and Guido Romay as operators of the destabilization of the dialogue.
Barral and Villa said that are "notorious" AS leaders of the opposition and lead a strategy of conflict under the rubric of defending the interests potosinos.
"have been fully identified these political movements that seek only cause problems when running under the pretext of defending the people," noted the spokesman.
eroded the social situation as an Advisory Council of Potosi, decision maker in the protest that has turned the region into a major headache, deliberating "more actions" to pressure the government of Morales.
| The English national team is already recorrriendo the streets of Madrid with the World Cup in open-top bus. The starting point has been Moncloa and will end the great celebration on the Esplanade Puente del Rey. Live video continues the celebrations of World Champions.
world champions Spain on Twitter congratulates The Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo has been welcomed by the social network Twitter the English team for their recent achievement of the World Cup held in South Africa and in which he participated his country, Portugal. Lusa selection was in fact one of the victims of the 'Red', specifically in the knockout round. Cristiano said on Twitter: "I congratulate the Red to win the world championship. I have many colleagues there and this win is a whole selection and throughout the country." In this way the Madrid shows its appreciation for the men's World Cup success of Vicente del Bosque and the joy of the people of the country in which he plays.
Paul Octopus receive a replica World Cup
 The Octopus Paul received a replica of the World Cup as a reward for perfect predictions of the eight results of the tournament, seven matches played by Germany and the final. The squid became a global celebrity correctly predict total of five victories in Germany in the World Cup, and their two losses and pointed to Spain as champions in the final against Holland. "There is no rational explanation for what is right always," he said after the ceremony Copa attended by hundreds of people.
Diego Forlan was the best player of the tournament
After an exciting final match winner eventually led to Spain, Uruguayan striker Diego Forlan was chosen as the best player in the World Cup in South Africa. "The truth is that it would be good to win the Golden Ball, but Apply now to be there among the top ten, it's something important, each analyzed and will vote, I already did everything I had to do," Forlan said days ago. The list of the "Golden Ball" which remained in the hands of Urugay, comprised of David Villa, Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta, by Spain, Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben of Holland, Mesut Özil and Bastian Schweinsteiger Germany. The list was completed with Lionel Messi and Ghana's Asamoah Gydan. For his part, Thomas Müller took the "Golden Boot" being the fewest minutes played is for all candidates.
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A woman displays a poster in protest gasolinazo in El Alto, on Wednesday, 29 December - APG Agency 
With these words, Hong admitted one of the key points in the revelations of Wikileaks, the China that long-term bet for a unified Korea to publicly defend despite the existence of North Korea, although refused to comment directly on other content. 
The government said it was "not new" espionage revealed by WikiLeaks, and accused the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been the "mainstay" of that work in the country. 
seal the victory was Barca's fifth victory of Pep Guardiola over Real Madrid in every game his team has played since he arrived, but today has more significant, because got to be true to form and against a team that had not lost a single game all season. 
"Being able to compete in this way with a team as well, which historically is the most 'Champions' has cattle that had swept this year, which was unbeaten in the league and in Europe, fills me with joy, "he confessed. 
"We had a chance to win. It's an easy game to discuss. A team played at full power and one played badly, "said the coach, who insisted that the championship will be matched up with a few points either, referring only to Barcelona and Madrid. 
At a public meeting. Ruben Costas, in a meeting with indigenous representatives. It was last May 4. 
The Constitution, however, does not define the choice of these authorities by the mechanism of custom. From the Governor, Secretary of Government, Vladimir Pena, called the decision illegal Native Guarayos and to ratify the authority designated for that region of the department. Costas 
To this end it has promulgated Supreme Decree 0637, which starts a project that has been neglected by previous governments without arguments sustainable. 
This newspaper attempted to contact the Deputy Minister of Social Defence, Felipe Caceres, and the Minister of Government, Sacha Llorenti, to meet the Government's position on report of Obama, but it was reported that first traveled to Brazil and the second according to the ratio of that ministry, would decide when to have their hands on the official report. 
