Editorial, Los Tiempos: Civics, merchants, transporters and other sectors are starting an indefinite general strike today. It is the repetition, expanded, of what happened a month ago and that led the Government to withdraw from the Senate its bill against the Legitimation of Illicit Profits. In the case of the regulation opposed by various sectors…
Month: November 2021
Desgastado – Luis Arce – Worn Out
The wear of Arce in his first year of government The circumstances in which Luis Arce meets the first year of his government do not seem to be like a celebration. No, because the mobilization that -against Law 1386 on the National Strategy to Fight the Legitimation of Illicit Profits- begins the same day of…
Primera aviadora – Amalia Villa de la Tapia – First female aviator
El Potosi: Senate honors the first female aviator It took 27 years for the Bolivian Senate to do justice to the first female aviator in South America and to approve a posthumous decoration in memory of Amalia Villa de la Tapia from Potosi. Villa Ella died on March 4, 1994, when she had passed the…
Bolivian journalists abducted, assaulted by armed men while covering land dispute
CPJ.org: Bogotá, November 4, 2021 – Bolivian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the abduction and assault of six journalists by a group of armed men and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On October 28, seven reporters, photographers, and camera operators for several Bolivian media…
World’s highest ski resort a Bolivian memory
PhysOrg (para leer en español, use el link de abajo): Bernardo Guarachi’s eyes light up as he reminisces about the glory days of Chacaltaya—once the highest ski resort in the world but now a crumbling relic to climate change in the Bolivian Andes. “Today, it’s a cemetery,” said Guarachi, pointing to the rusted poles and…
‘This sun isn’t normal’: Extreme UV radiation is broiling Bolivia’s highlands
Reuters, CNN: (La Paz)Bolivia’s highlands city of La Paz has been hit by an unusual heatwave, with levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation soaring off the charts, exacerbated by unusually low levels of cloud cover some experts link to climate change.Levels of UV radiation have at times in recent weeks hit 21 on a scale that…
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