Ryan Grim and Nick Wing write for Huffpost Politics: Operation Naked King: U.S. Secretly Targeted Bolivia’s Evo Morales In Drug Sting A confidential informant says the DEA had its sights set on Bolivia’s populist leader. The United States has secretly indicted top officials connected to the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales for their alleged…
Month: September 2015
Anarchy continues to invade land and destroy gabions that protect the environment!
Fernando Rojas reports for El Deber: They announce proceedings against illegal seizure of land people that divert river Searpi warns about the irregular channel built, that could flood 70,000 to 100,000 ha of the productive land of the boundary between Santistevan and Guarayos. Service Water Channeling Regularisation and Pirai River (Searpi), the technical arm of…
The Bolivian harsh reality… politically, economically… demagogically
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: The harsh reality It is touching the effort made by the Minister of Finance to ensure that everything is going well and that the crisis of raw materials affects every country in the world except for Bolivia. President Evo Morales himself had to come forward and admit that it…
Ismael Cala says that the interview with Evo made him “want to vomit”
Omar Pereyra in eju.tv reports from CNN: Ismael Cala says that the interview with Evo made him “want to vomit” In the program “Oppenheimer presents” last Sunday night [09/06/2015], the popular presenter of CNN Ismael Cala said that the interviews with some politicians make him want to vomit, adding that the last case of this…
Ernesto Ortiz Silverware
Los Tiempos reports: COLONIAL ART Ernesto Ortiz Silverware A twenty year old Ernesto Ortiz, a native of Arani, began collecting works of art from the colonial period and seeing the demand and that these were not merely reproduced, he launched into production mainly of embossed silver and other religious objects. “I liked to collect colonial…
Bolivia’s situation regarding floods, hunger, poverty…
From ReliefWeb: Informing humanitarians worldwide. ReliefWeb has been the leading source for reliable and timely humanitarian information on global crises and disasters since 1996. Bolivia Situation Report #2, 07 September 2015 Highlights • The Government officially requested WFP to support flood-affected families in the northern Santa Cruz department. • WFP has assessed the affected area and indicated…
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