AFP reports for Business Standard: Bolivia prosecutors drop key charge against president’s ex Bolivian prosecutors has said they have dropped influence-peddling charges against President Evo Morales’s jailed ex-girlfriend, who is at the center of a steamy case involving allegations of corruption and a hidden love child. Gabriela Zapata, a former manager at a Chinese engineering…
Month: August 2016
Following dinosaur footsteps in Bolivia’s fossil mecca
Phys.org reports: Following dinosaur footsteps in Bolivia’s fossil mecca It’s not easy following in the footsteps of the largest animals ever to roam Earth. There are no roads or even footpaths to get to the spot in Bolivia where researchers recently discovered a huge dinosaur footprint measuring 1.15 meters (nearly four feet) wide. But Bolivian…
A look back at Bolivian Baroque
Ashley Solomon reports for Gramophone: A look back at Bolivian Baroque The Director of Florilegium, Ashley Solomon, on a life-changing recording project As I sit on a crowded train heading (slowly) towards Axminster and Florilegium’s concert in the Branscombe Festival I have one of those rare opportunities to take stock and look back over a…
662,000 tons in drought losses
Miguel Angel Roca reports for El Deber: 662,000 tons in drought losses The figure corresponds to the effects registered in some crops in the eastern part of the department [Santa Cruz]. In resources it implies a loss of approximately $182 million dollars. So far 662,000 tons have suffered loss of performance in different crops in…
Amaszonas Signs Up For Seabury’s Alkym
MRO-Network.com reports: Amaszonas Signs Up For Seabury’s Alkym South American airline group Amaszonas has signed up for Seabury Solutions’ Alkym software designed for airline technical operations. The Bolivia-based carrier, which is also parent company to airlines in Paraguay and Uruguay, underwent the go-live phase of the software installation in June and July. Amaszonas Líneas Aéreas group…
Drought causes huge losses in several regions
ANF reports in El Deber: Drought causes huge losses in several regions In the country, 132,000 families suffer the consequences of the lack of liquid. Rodent invasion, death of animals, thousands of hectares of grassland burned, lack of water for human and animal consumption and irrigation; affected agricultural and livestock production; environmental pollution and health…
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