Euro News reports: Shocking scenes at disabled protest in Bolivia By Catherine Hardy There have been shocking scenes at the end of a demonstration in Bolivia as disabled people clashed with riot police. Tear gas was let off as the protesters, some on crutches or in wheelchairs, advanced down the street in the city of…
Month: June 2016
Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell
Plastics News reports: Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell Bolivia’s state-owned petrochemical company will license polypropylene technology from LyondellBasell Industries for use at the country’s first plastic resins plant. Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has selected Spheripol process technology for the 550-million-pound capacity plant in Tarija. Market sources said the plant is expected…
Homestays and rural ways: Flora Baker savours Bolivia – in pictures
Flora Baker for The Guardian: The food and colours of working life in the Andean foothills are captured in these images snapped while undertaking voluntary work. I’m a travel writer from London who spent 18 months volunteering in South America. In Bolivia, I volunteered at a rural library project in the village of Morado K’asa,…
MAS bets on turmoil to stay in government!
Grimaldes reports in El Deber: Protests affect much of Bolivia Heavy-load transport, factory workers dismissed from the Enatex textile company, people with disabilities, people of Guayaramerín and cement Fancesa owners are mobilized. The sectors of heavy-load transport, people with disabilities, owners of the National Cement Factory in Sucre, residents of Guayaramerín, residents of El Alto,…
The elegance of Bolivian “cholitas” reaches the Big Apple
EFE reports in Fox News Latino: The elegance of Bolivian “cholitas” reaches the Big Apple The elegant clothing style of the La Paz “cholita,” the emblematic indigenous Aymara woman who is the cultural icon of La Paz, will be seen for the first time during Fashion Week in New York this September. The famed New…
How important is Bolivia to the USA Government?
There are a number of us who think and feel the opposite of the coca grower caudillo. We have friends, family, education, jobs and fun in the USA and share our lives with our American friends and families. No doubt about that, despite the insane hatred that the masismo expressed for the last 10 years…
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