El Deber website offers the latest speech from current Bolivian president: President told the indigenous people of San Ignacio de Moxos to request their leaders and Assembly [congress] representatives to push for the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, so it can go through the TIPNIS. [as planned] He continued by saying the he saved his responsibility by getting the credit for the…
Day: November 10, 2011
Power outages continue to happen
Power outages in seven cities across the country continued yesterday due to failures in power generation. The National Load Dispatch (NCDC) instructed to disconnect power from 19:10 to 20:05 affecting Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro, Sucre, Potosí and Trinidad. Arturo Iporre, president of the CNDC, explained that the reasons for such power cuts were…
Bolivian alpaca products continue to reach the USA!
The alpaca producers say their exports to the U.S. rose even without the ATPDEA, but at the same time exporting became more expensive due to the existing tariffs. They regret that their Peruvian peers grow more due to the benefit of not having to pay taxes of hospitalization. [so, the situation is bad, with the…
Potosi: 201 years of freedom!!
Today is a very special day, Potosi celebrates 201 years of freedom, since the time it started its independence quest from Spaniard rule. When I was a child, I used to hear the following: “Potosi had electricity long before Paris” “Potosi was twice the size of New York” and so on… there is even a…
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