Hoybolivia.com reports: Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model Santa Cruz.- In connection with President Evo Morales’s trip to Venezuela to commemorate the four years since Hugo Chávez’s death, congressman of the Democrat political party, Luis Felipe Dorado said that the president “continues to spend without permission Bolivian resources for his travels of private…
Month: March 2017
Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
Georgina Jiménez, writes for IC Magazine via Truth Out A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia Over the past 10 years, the area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from three million hectares in 2007[1] to more than thirty one million[2]. Precisely 28.84% of the surface of Bolivia…
Brazil conditions the gas purchase contract
ANF reports in El Deber: Brazil conditions the gas purchase contract Diplomat Santos Rocha believes that the new contract will be beneficial for both countries. Brazil’s new natural gas purchase contract will fit Brazil’s new energy context, said Brazilian ambassador to the country, Raymundo Santos Rocha, is confident that his country will soon be out…
It is not a game, Bolivia is turning into a failed State, a narc one!
It is no secret that Bolivian president has claimed over and over that he is foremost the leader of the coca grower’s of Chapare. Furthermore, a UN report states that over 90% of the Chapare coca goes to narcotraffick … over the last eleven years, this person had absolute control of all State powers, thus…
Israeli killed in motorbike accident in Bolivia
Sue Surkes reports for The Times of Israel: Israeli killed in motorbike accident in Bolivia Victim identified as Dor Jan, 23; fatal crash comes only four months after another Israeli biker died in the Andean nation. An Israeli citizen was killed Tuesday in a motorcycle accident in Bolivia, the Foreign Ministry said. The ministry released…
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