El Diario reports: Animals abandoned to their fate • Chinese citizens promote the killing of species in the country, offering money to local people in exchange for jaguar tusks and other parts • Senator Yerko Núñez said that out of more than 100 complaints only two are sentenced and regretted for the little control exercised…
Month: September 2018
Bolivian reality 101: Bad and good corruption according to political color
An striking truth, Editorial from El Diario, photo from Los Tiempos, 2016: In our environment, corruption is an endemic and widespread evil. It is seen in the big and in the small, but above all it nests in the bowels of the State, understanding it not only the Central Government but also the mayors and…
Fast Food Consumption Jump Poses Health Risks In Bolivia: Reports
Sadia Abbas reports for Urdu Point: Recent reports have found that the consumption of junk and fast foods in Bolivia has risen nearly 200 percent in the last 15 years, representing a major risk to public health. LA PAZ, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 15th Sep, 2018 ) :Recent reports have found that the…
What life is like for the teenage miners of Potosi, Bolivia
Kenneth Dickerman and Photo editor Simone Francescangeli for The Washington Post: “El Tio” and a miner. “El Tio” is a miner’s god that presides over every tunnel entrance. Every day, miners offer him coca leaves, cigarettes and alcohol, hoping it will bring good fortune. (Simone Francescangeli) Any celebration is a good opportunity to drink and forget miners’ living…
Bolivia is following Venezuela and Nicaragua – and that’s toward totalitarian rule
Andres Oppenheimer writes for the Miami Herald: While the mass exodus of more than 2.3 million Venezuelans and the murder of more than 300 anti-government protesters in Nicaragua are making big headlines, it may be time to pay attention to another country in the region that is also moving rapidly toward totalitarian rule: Bolivia. Bolivian…
Adjustments in economic policy are recommended
ANF reports for Pagina Siete: The National Chamber of Commerce (CNC) recommended, in a statement issued yesterday, that given the economic imbalances that were generated in Argentina, and that make foresee consequences in the regional and national economy, some adjustments in Bolivian economic policy should be promoted. “This serious imbalance in the Argentine economy will…
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