“They were the infiltrates” is Humberto Vacaflor’s article in El Deber today [inside brackets like this go some clarifications and my opinion]: President Evo Morales has just revealed the deeper truth about their government: the infiltrates are guilty of everything. This was the explanation that the Bolivians were waiting, because they could not understand how all these…
Month: November 2011
Diving world record in Titicaca accomplished!!
On November 12, I posted a news regarding the Italian initiative to dive at high altitude: https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/diving-in-the-highest-lake-of-the-world/ Today, Pagina Siete (Pablo Peralta) reports: The team dived 101 meters deep at Lake Titicaca. FACT: In one of the dives near the Isla del Sol team rescued three archaeological artifacts (two noggins and a third element), which were handed to the…
Some road blockades suspended temporarily
The trucking industry [heavy load transport association] said on Tuesday afternoon, a recess is in effect, after agreeing with the Government to install a working group to discuss the payment of taxes and fines for the legalization of undocumented trailers or ‘flat’ units. “We determined to make a recess in our pressure measurements while analyzing this…
TIPNIS jailers, an editorial from Los Tiempos
Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos, regarding TIPNIS jailers: In order to obtain first-hand information, Los Tiempos organized the trip of a reporting team (a journalist, a photographer and a driver) to confirm, or otherwise, several reports on the construction of a road within the Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS), which would be underway by the indigenous sympathizers of the political…
Tomorrow more road blockades, strikes in Tarija
The heavy load transport union is currently blocking Bolivian roads in 13 points; Tarija’s road to Argentina is already blocked. However, the Civic Committee of Tarija is calling for a departmental strike for tomorrow November 16, 2011. The reason is the oil camp Margarita which is in question as to the royalties’ distribution.
Road blockades UPDATE, Nov 15, 2011
UNITEL and PAT TV channels report this morning (06:29) Oruro: Roads continue to be blocked by their Civic Committee; so La Paz cannot connect with Potosi, Sucre, Tarija, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. Sucre: Roads are blocking access by heavy load transport (HT) Santa Cruz: Road block in doble-via La Guardia (lifted yesterday evening and most likely to be…
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