El Dia reports: According to the CSUTCB Indigenous Fund gave money to a ghost town They gave Bs630.000 to an uninhabited community in Beni. Call for investigation. The Campesino Workers Trade Union Confederation of Bolivia (CSUTCB) verified that the Indigenous Development Fund for Native Farmers (Fondioc) disbursed Bs630,000 for a productive project in a community…
Month: May 2014
The exploitation of non-renewable resources under current Bolivian gov
An Editorial from El Diario: The exploitation of non-renewable resources A picture of mining, hydrocarbons and “industrialization” shows no results as positive as we would like, so the bonanza disseminated by government spokesmen would be in question. In connection with tin – traditional source of income of the country things are not going well. Huanuni…
What to do with the informal economy that destroys Bolivia?
An Editorial from El Diario: Informal economy destroys the country Informal economy or for better words, illicit trade, has been since ancient times, contrary to the interests of nations. Its validity has led the best efforts, dedication to work and production to faint, placing the validity of the convictions on decline or weaken laws; finally,…
Pink drones out of control over the Andes: Flamingos at Reserva Eduardo Abaroa
From the Inter American Development Bank: No, this is not some military project aimed at equipping wildlife with lethal capabilities. The project is actually harmless. It seeks to increase our knowledge of flamingo flight patterns in southern Bolivia, with the ultimate goal of better locating future infrastructure development in the region. To achieve that, we…
Bolivianísima, music with classical moves: Juan Antonio Rojas
I welcome Juan Antonio Rojas to The Hall of Bolivian Fame. Claudia Gonzales reports for Los Tiempos: This work of Juan Antonio Rojas includes Bolivian rhythms: yaravi, carnavalito, bailecito, cueca and morenada. Bolivianísima, music with classical moves Bolivianísima is one of the instrumental music pieces by maestro Juan Antonio Rojas, presented this Thursday [5/22/2014] at…
Sean Penn punked Ego, a coca grower who’s the occasional president…
Written by Shiryn Ghermezian, from The Algemeiner: Jacob Ostreicher, the Orthodox Jewish American who was held captive in Bolivia for three years, on Sunday revealed details for the first time on how actor Sean Penn helped bring him back to the U.S. last December and personally nursed him to mental and physical health. “I spent…
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