Reuters reports: Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent Bolivian consumer prices rose 0.38 percent in February, the official National Statistics Institute said on Friday, marking an increase in inflation from 0.10 percent in January. Rising food and beverage prices led February’s increase. The South American natural gas exporting nation expects inflation of 5.03 percent…
Month: March 2017
Javier Sánchez: The work of a Bolivian tailor who arrived to Armani, Italy
Erbol reports via Pagina Siete: Javier Sánchez: The work of a Bolivian tailor who arrived to Armani, Italy The Bolivian took his work to Monte Napoleone Street, the most famous street in the world for fashion. Javier Sebastián Sánchez is a 46-year-old tailor from La Paz who left Bolivia to escape the economic crisis and…
UMSA professor wins award in Spain: Karina Medinaceli Díaz
Pagina Siete gives us great news! UMSA professor wins award in Spain Karina Medinaceli Díaz, Professor of Law at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, obtained the Ibero-American Data Protection Prize for her PhD thesis at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has given the result of the 2016…
Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city
Harriet Mallinson reports for MailOnLine and AFP: Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city Fluorescent-coloured walls tower for up to seven stories at an altitude of 13,000ft in the city of El Alto Called ‘cholets’ by the locals they were built by…
Scientists to transport ice from Bolivian melting glacier to Antarctica, preserve its ‘memory’
EFE reports via Fox News: Scientists to transport ice from Bolivian melting glacier to Antarctica, preserve its ‘memory’ An international team of scientists will transport ice from the glacier on Bolivia’s Mt. Illimani, the country’s second-highest peak, to Antarctica with the aim of preserving its climatological “memory” – that is, the valuable information about the…
US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish
Sabrina Martin reports for PanAm Post: US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish Once again Bolivia and Venezuela, along with Burma, are the countries where there is a “demonstrable failure” in their obligations to fight drug trafficking. [this is a no-brainer considering the coca grower caudillo from the region has become president, after…
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