El Deber reports: The National Executive Committee of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB – main worker’s union in Bolivia), has to disseminate within 20 days, the resolutions of the last expanded national meeting, where a national minimum wage of Bs 8,300 [Bs6.96 per dollar] as the basis for wage negotiations with the Government. On the…
Month: March 2012
Bolivian bird species endangered, learn who they are and DO something!!
Armonia Foundation [a proud Bolivian NGO] has released an important book and Gemma Candela reports for La Razon: The masked tororí (Hylopezus auricularis) shakes its wings in the Bolivian Amazon. He lives between the Madre de Dios and Beni rivers. There are only between 300 and 500 survivors of this bird of 14 centimeters long, the majority concentrated…
Beautiful jewelry from Santa Cruz
It was with great surprise that I found this jewelry store: Andrea. It has great designs and what is more important has an interesting website in English, so anyone of you out there could order fine Bolivian jewelry. The site is not updated as they do have a nice earrings and pendant with the Patuju,…
TIME reports: Bolivian Coca Farmers Switch to Coffee Beans
This is from TIME, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky reporting: For millennia, farmers in Bolivia’s breathtaking Yungas Valley terraced their steep mountainsides for coca. They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century,…
A Bolivian war hero: Hugo Pinedo, honored in Washington DC
El Deber had the great idea to publish Fides News Agency report on one of our heroes: The Bolivian Hugo Pinedo, aged 95; he fought in the Chaco War (1932-1935) in defense of the natural resources of Bolivia, and six years later joined the United States armed forces to fight in World War II against…
34 violently injured people between Potosi and Oruro, is this blunt anarchy or what??!!
Freddy Lacio reports for El Deber’s website: At least 34 wounded, four of them seriously, is the result of a clash between peasants from the municipalities of Quillacas, Oruro, and Coroma, Potosí, for the possession of tracts of land suitable for cultivation of quinoa, found in the boundary between of both departments and which are…
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