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Defunding the Amazon: mapping ISDS risk from the oil and gas sector in amazonian countries

2025-11-12 13:44:50

12-Nov-2025

The protection of the Amazon is a central theme of the COP30 in Belém, Brazil. However, efforts to ensure that the Amazon is defended are at risk of instead being defunded—by investor-state dispute settlement.

Key points in Shell's arbitration case against Bolivia

2025-09-01 15:53:20

01-Sep-2025

On August 5, 2025, BG Overseas Limited, a subsidiary of Shell, informed Bolivia of a dispute involving its subsidiary, Shell Bolivia Corporation, as per Article 8 of the Bilateral Investment Treaty signed with the United Kingdom.

Swiss foreign minister pushes for free trade deal in Latin America

2025-02-10 10:43:02

10-Feb-2025

During a five-day trip to Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay this week, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis tried to push forward negotiations on a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

Nations are exiting a secretive system that protects corporations. One country's story shows how hard that can be

2025-01-03 10:17:16

03-Jan-2025

Bolivia was the first nation to begin leaving a legal system that allows foreign companies to sue governments behind closed doors. Now, other countries are following.

Arbitration court favors Bolivia in dispute with mining company

2023-11-07 14:39:44

07-Nov-2023

The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of Bolivia, denying any compensation to the American mining company Orlandini for the revocation of concessions.

Bolivia found liable for violating the FET standard and the prohibition to adopt arbitrary measures when implementing nationalization on the pension system

2023-01-09 14:46:17

09-Jan-2023

The tribunal rejected Bolivia's objection on jurisdiction and, on the merits, found that Bolivia had breached the FET standard and the prohibition to adopt arbitrary measures. BBVA was awarded USD 94.8 million in damages.

Nobel economist and 100 experts condemn corporate action against Argentina and Bolivia after rollback of failed pension privatization

2021-04-08 15:20:38

08-Apr-2021

Private insurance corporations are suing Argentina and Bolivia for loss of potential profits as a result of the reversal of privatization of pension programs.

Aguas del Tunari vs. Bolivia: Water privatization fiascos

2020-01-01 15:00:00

01-Jan-2020

Abritration Court awards South American Silver $28 million for Malku Khota in Bolivia

2018-11-26 18:46:56

26-Nov-2018

The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration has awarded South American Silver $18.7 million for amounts invested and another $9 million in interest for its Malku Khota concession, which the Bolivian government revoked in 2012.

BBVA starts arbitrations procedures with the ICSID on the exit from its Bolivian Pension Fund Administrator

2018-08-14 10:47:16

14-Aug-2018

BBVA has requested arbitration under the investment agreement between Spain and Bolivia with respect to the transfer of BBVA Previsión AFP (Pension Fund Administrator) to the Government of Bolivia.

Bolivia ordered to make US$49mn award to Chile's Quiborax

2018-05-24 15:22:58

24-May-2018

After a 14-year dispute between Quiborax and the Bolivian government, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rejected Bolivia's application to annul a US$48.6mn award in favor of the Chilean mining company.

Six years after the ‘Aymarazo' protests in Peru

2017-06-28 15:27:11

28-Jun-2017

Criminal charges pending against 18 community leaders and a billion-dollar court case at ICSID.

Bolivia's step back in state arbitration

2017-05-16 16:38:14

16-May-2017

How far does the new Bolivian arbitration act go in its intent to keep State arbitration inside the country?

Glencore begins arbitration against Bolivia over mine nationalization

2016-08-17 10:00:00

17-Aug-2016

Glencore International has notified Bolivia that it has begun arbitration proceedings over its investments in two smelters and a tin mine nationalized between 2007 and 2012.

Glencore begins arbitration over Bolivia assets expropriation

2016-08-05 21:28:02

05-Aug-2016

Swiss trader Glencore filed for arbitration against the Bolivian government for the expropriation of its mining and smelting assets, adding to a series of lawsuits against the Andean country.

Bolivian president slams Pacific Alliance trade bloc

2016-08-04 07:04:37

04-Aug-2016

Evo Morales says the Pacific Alliance trade bloc is a neocolonial tool intended to cripple regional trade initiatives that exclude the US.

Bolivia could have free trade agreement with EU

2016-04-08 11:54:29

08-Apr-2016

Representative sectors in Bolivia are increasingly more interested in resuming bilateral free trade negotiations with the European Union.

Conciliation and arbitration law: Times of change in investment protection in Bolivia

2016-02-15 08:38:33

15-Feb-2016

Bolivia's experience has shown that attracting foreign investment does not by itself generate the expected development for host states and that, rather, it consists in a mechanism for financing and transferring resources from the South to the North.

National Chamber of Commerce of Bolivia requests process towards trade deal with EU be accelerated

2014-12-23 16:38:00

23-Dec-2014

The National Chamber of Commerce considers that before Bolivia becomes a full member of Mercosur, the country must conclude a trade agreement with the EU.

The Alba Fair hosts Venezuela Exporta in Cochabamba

2014-07-14 07:57:00

14-Jul-2014

Alvaro Garcia Linera, the vice president of Bolivia, was entrusted with inaugurating in Cochabamba, the Fair of Industrial Complementarity of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America – a Trade Treaty for the People (Alba – TCP)