Wilson Aguilar reports for La Prensa: IT IS A TRADITION THAT COMES FROM THE COLONY THE PICANA, THE QUEEN OF THE TABLE ON CHRISTMAS EVE The traditional dish is the main meal on Christmas Eve. The picana, traditional food inherited from the colonial era, is the Queen of the table on Christmas Eve, says the…
Month: December 2013
Quinoa for export…? just the name or the actual produce??!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Quinoa for export It’s been the international year of quinoa and has left, a more famous quinoa in the world, but also leaves a problematic legacy: • The price of quinoa in Bolivia is rising despite the efforts of companies to keep stocked the domestic market. • The rest…
Ruling against illegal take overs is for real? part of a campaign? payoff?
ANF reports in Los Tiempos: DERIVE STANDARD TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES Senate approves law against subjugation The Senate last night passed the Bill against land take overs and was derived to the lower House for examination and treatment. The Senator of the movement toward socialism (MAS), David Sanchez, reported that the maximum sanction against…
An intolerant, unilateral, demagogue Bolivian gov
ANF reports on current gov’s intolerance due to its totalitarian style… GOVERNMENT EXPELLED THE DANISH NGO “IBIS” FROM BOLIVIA IBIS worked in recent years with organizations such as the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of the Qullasuyu (Conamaq) and the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (Cidob), whose members would have been RECEIVING funding and…
Bolivian gov with THE worst reputation ever!!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Sad fame of the country A Senator who must flee the country with the help of a Brazilian diplomat and entrepreneur of us who escaped in a strange operation, mixture of kidnapping and bribery. The fame of the Bolivian justice is at its worst, with failures that are questioned by…
Where did they go?! corruption or plain ineptitude of current gov?
ANF reports: GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT HAS NO INVENTORY OF TOTAL SEIZED ITEMS The annual report of the Ministry of Government does not consider assets confiscated in the departments of Potosí and Oruro. La Paz, Dec. 19 (ANF)-Government Minister Carlos Romero, recognized that to date there is no full record of all those goods seized…
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