Juan Carlos Salinas reports for El Deber: Pineapples, hearts of palm, and bananas make a difference in international trade Despite the cold weather, a strangeness in the Cochabamba Tropics, the vans that carry workers to the banana productive centers are crowded. Isarzama and Ivirgarzama (Carrasco Province) are the operations center where acres and acres of…
Month: July 2014
How Venezuela “invaded” Brazilian skies to send guns to Bolivia’s coca gov
It is undeniable that current president of Bolivia has sworn loyalty first to his condition as the leader of the coca-growers of the Chapare, thus the title of this post, so that the acolytes of this gov does not have ideas to come after me… ;) It is sad and upsetting to watch how the…
Will Argentina stop paying for our gas, one more time?!
Carlos Miranda writes in Pagina Siete: SPEAKING OF ENERGY Good buyer, but bad payer Argentina was our first buyer of natural gas in large volumes and for long-term. YPFB inherited that contract with fixed prices. As soon took over that condition changed. Argentina refused to agree on a formula for automatic settings. They preferred to…
“Bolivia Access to Sea,” Reality, Not Myths
Former Bolivia President, Carlos Mesa writes on behalf of Bolivia, regarding our claim of a sovereign seacoast that was taken by force, by Chile: “Bolivia Access to Sea,” Reality, Not Myths Over 20% of the world’s countries lack seacoast. A finding that is one elementary truth, is that ALL the Mediterranean countries that import or…
Bolivian Franz Freudenthal improved occluder devices for congenital disease
Innovadores de America, present Franz Freudenthal Tichauer and I welcome him to The Hall of Bolivian Fame: Occluder devices for congenital heart disease The innovation consists of different devices, occluders to treat various types of congenital heart disease that were developed by him, Dr. Freudenthal. Before the 60s, the only way to treat severe congenital heart disease…
How Sucre became the definitive capital of Bolivia
Luis S. Crespo wrote for El Diario on July 12, 1925: Defining the definitive capital of the Republic The National Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Bolivia, by law of August 11, 1825 ordered that lay the foundations of a city to serve as a capital for the new nation, and that city would be…
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