Jessica Lindsay reports for Metro: Prop up your Instagram at the Bolivian Salt Flats Did you even go on holiday if you don’t get some top quality pictures for the ‘gram? Making memories is what holidays are all about, but being able to laugh about those memories forever is just as important. If that’s your motto…
Month: July 2017
evo lied! we’re not becoming Latin America’s Switzerland: 22 months with Bolivia importing more than exporting
Pagina Siete reports: 22 months with Bolivia importing more than exporting The trade deficit to May increased to $645 million dollars, despite the fact that exports grew by 8.1% to $3.027 million dollars. The trade balance of the country registered, until May of this year, a trade deficit of $645 million dollars. It’s been 22…
Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems
Focus on the Global South reports via CADTM: Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems Pablo Solón, the Director of Fundación Solón, former Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and former Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is being targeted…
Chacaltaya shows fossils of prehistoric marine fauna
El Diario reports: Chacaltaya shows fossils of prehistoric marine fauna The reduction of the ice mass exposed a fossil deposit of prehistoric marine fauna from the Silurian period some 420 to 400 million years ago. Bolivian paleontologist Rubén Andrade of the National Museum of Natural History confirmed the existence of the paleontological deposit that was…
Earth from Space: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
SpaceRef reports: Earth from Space: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia The image shows part of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt flat in the world. Occupying over 10 000 sq km, the vast Salar de Uyuni lies at the southern end of the Altiplano, a high plain of inland drainage in the central Andes….
Bolivia women’s rights groups hope revised law is step toward legal abortion
Myles McCormick reports for The Guardian: Bolivia women’s rights groups hope revised law is step toward legal abortion Procedure is currently illegal save for cases of rape, incest and health crises, a policy that activists say has encouraged dangerous clandestine abortions. Women’s rights groups in Bolivia hope that an overhaul of the country’s penal code…
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