Colonial churches continue to be the center of Bolivian festivities

Carla Hannover writes for Pagina Siete: ACCORDING TO A STUDY, THESE TEMPLES ARE THE AXIS OF THE COMMUNITIES Colonial churches continue to be the center of the festivities Heritage. Despite their social and heritage value of these buildings, they are in a serious state of deterioration and in recent months they have become the target…

Bolivian ochlocracy “offers” [threatens with] more nationalizations…

From the editorial page of El Dia: About telephone companies and insecurity What we Bolivians came to find out now. It is now known that the responsible for the insecurity in the country are two private telephone, for allegedly not cooperating in the investigation of the kidnappings and other serious crimes. The Government has been…

“environmental” demagogue or plain lack of understanding?

Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Monoculture or ‘mono-speech’? Some people dare to make negative judgments against the agricultural sector and are given the luxury of say – with an angelic halo – about things that never were and who do not understand. Not risking their fortune, not sweating a single drop, not planting anything,…

Glaciation in Bolivia

Bernardo Ellefsen writes in Los Tiempos: Glaciation in Bolivia In a previous article I stated briefly how glacial eras will behave and promised that I would give local examples. Glacial eras would be produced by the increase in precipitation, and areas in snow by the formation of layers of snow compacted into ice that would…