Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Deber: The US will buy more Bolivian sugar, sweet news in bitter times for the industry The quota for 2020 rose from 8,424 tons to 12,758. According to the North American embassy it will be the largest quota in more than two decades that the country receives. The harvest is…
Month: April 2020
1943, La Paz city, a superb video!
A Julien Bryan production: Great socio economic display, and during WWII which was not even mentioned … Loved to see trams as public transportation … like train service, these days, both were discontinued and that is a real shame!
REC electrifies village in Bolivia
Michelle McConnaha reports for Ravalli Republic: Against the odds, linemen from the Ravalli Electric Cooperative and other electric cooperatives from Montana brought electricity to a rural village in Bolivia last month. In Pando (Northern region of Bolivia) in the village called Villa Cotoca, the Big Sky effort now provides electricity to the 38 homes and 150 people,…
The economy is fixed later – La economía se arregla después
Juan Manuel Arias writes in El Deber: The economy is fixed later In this quarantine, everything has been seen and heard, from sensible statements, other alarmist and apocalyptic and many crazy, selfish and impertinent to the point of calling for the health rebellion calling the population to a collective exhibition of the contagion of the…
Today Gov will define whether or not to extend quarantine – Hoy Gob define si amplía o no cuarentena
El Diario reports: Covid – 19 Government will define on Tuesday whether or not to extend quarantine The government will define on Tuesday whether or not the total quarantine in force in the country since March 22 is extended and lasts until April 15, government minister Arturo Murillo reported on Sunday. “It is an issue…
In Bolivia announced the militarization of the largest city
Kxan 36 News reports: The largest city of Bolivia, Santa Cruz will be militarized as of April 14, with the purpose of strengthening the fight against the pandemic of new type of coronavirus, said the Minister of industrial development Wilfredo Rojo. “We are at war with an invisible enemy, and since we are at war,…
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