Weekly Report - 27 September 2018 (WR-18-38)

BOLIVIA | New airport. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales opened a new US$28.6m international airport last week in the town of San Ignacio de Velasco, located near the Brazilian border in the eastern department of Santa Cruz. The primary aim of the new airport is to drive tourism to the nearby Jesuit missions, some of the best preserved in the Americas and a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) World Heritage site, but Morales also hopes that it will attract passengers flying to the US and Europe.