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Defunding the Amazon: mapping ISDS risk from the oil and gas sector in amazonian countries
12-Nov-2025 Global Development Policy Center
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
1-Sep-2025 Linkedin
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
10-Feb-2025 Swissinfo
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
3-Jan-2025 Inside Climate News
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
7-Nov-2023 teleSUR
The Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of Bolivia, denying any compensation to the American mining company Orlandini for the revocation of concessions.
Nobel economist and 100 experts condemn corporate action against Argentina and Bolivia after rollback of failed pension privatization
8-Apr-2021 IPS
Private insurance corporations are suing Argentina and Bolivia for loss of potential profits as a result of the reversal of privatization of pension programs.
Abritration Court awards South American Silver $28 million for Malku Khota in Bolivia
26-Nov-2018 Mining.com
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
14-Aug-2018 BBVA
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
24-May-2018 BN Americas
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
28-Jun-2017 Radio Mundo Real
Criminal charges pending against 18 community leaders and a billion-dollar court case at ICSID.
Glencore begins arbitration against Bolivia over mine nationalization
17-Aug-2016 Daily Business Review
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
5-Aug-2016 BNamericas
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
4-Aug-2016 Telesur
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
8-Apr-2016 Fresh Plaza
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
15-Feb-2016 IISD
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
23-Dec-2014 La Razón
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
14-Jul-2014 Aporrea
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)
Rurelec wins historic Bolivian compensation award
4-Feb-2014 Stock Market Wire
UK power generator Rurelec has won an historic Bolivian compensation award worth $35.5m, the first granted by an international court against Bolivia.
The global fight against corporate rule
15-Jan-2014 The Nation
Activists are challenging rules that grant corporations the right to sue governments.
Alba alliance ambitions lay bare Latin trade confusion
1-Aug-2013
In the bewildering array of Latin American and Caribbean trade alliances, the left-of-centre Alba group is probably the one that attracts the least attention outside the region.