Caio Ruvenal reports for Opinion: Interview with the author of the book Painting in Bolivia in the XXth Century (BBB) that is presented, in a second revised and expanded edition, next Thursday 23 at the Melchor Pinto Cultural Center in Santa Cruz. In 1989, the Banco Hipotecario Nacional, celebrating its centenary, launched the book Bolivian…
Month: May 2019
Bad politics 101: An illegal, illegitimate, unethical candidacy
Eric Cardenas writes in El Diario: The life of modern societies evolves according to the norms, that is to say to the norms and laws, it is the state of law in which all citizens, without exception, are subject to compliance with the laws, but in the societies subject to regimes of authoritarian and dictatorial…
The rapes haunting a community that shuns the 21st Century
Linda Pressly reports for BBC News: In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, nine men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 151 women and girls – including small children – within this small Christian community. So why are Manitoba’s leaders…
A journalist reveals the human cost of modern mining through the vivid story of a young Bolivian mine worker
Karen Hudson-Edwards reports for Science: Alicia Quispe is preparing to go to work in the adobe hut she shares with her mother, Rosa, and sister, Evelyn. The hut, located on the outskirts of the Bolivian town of Potosí, has no windows, running water, or electricity. As she walks to the job site, she carries stones…
First dome lodge opens on Bolivia’s salt flats
The National, Lifestyle reports: Travellers to the South American country can sleep under the stars on top of the salt flats at the base of a volcano Bucket list travellers take note, there’s a new destination you might want to add to your travel list as the first dome lodge in the Bolivian Altiplano has…
The Electoral Tribunal causes distrust
Editorial from El Diario, graph below from an earlier post: In the crisis of the political-governmental system that the country is going through, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and all the departmental apparatus of its dependence receive special notoriety, a crisis that is not the only one and is reflected in the Bolivian Police, in…
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