Editorial, Los Tiempos: One blockade after another Although the country is still immersed in the economic crisis, which began to manifest itself in 2014, and in the health crisis, since an imminent fifth wave of the pandemic is already announced, the road blockade has reappeared on the public agenda as a form of pressure so…
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In Bolivia’s Silver Mountain, Artisanal Miners Turn to Coca and the Devil | En la Montaña de Plata de Bolivia, los mineros artesanales recurren a la coca y al diablo
Reuters, USNews: By Marcelo Rochabrun and Santiago Limachi CERRO RICO, Bolivia (Reuters) – Next to one of Bolivia’s poorest cities lies one of the richest silver mines in the history of mankind – Cerro Rico, Spanish for ‘Rich Mountain – a once-legendary source of wealth for the Spanish Empire that is now being dug out…
Serious structural flaws in the Justice | Fallas estructurales graves en la Justicia
Editorial, El Deber: Dramatic report of the UN rapporteur All of us Bolivians knew it, but a foreign professional with the position of special rapporteur of the United Nations had to come to carry out an observation mission and several interviews to take away a good amount of information, the same information that today allows…
Pre-Columbian City | Ciudad precolombina
Archaeology: Pre-Columbian City in Bolivia Investigated With Airborne Lasers BONN, GERMANY—A pre-Columbian landscape inhabited by the people of the Casarabe culture between A.D. 500 and 1400 has been mapped in Bolivia’s Amazon rain forest by archaeologist Heiko Prümers of the German Archaeological Institute and his colleagues, according to a Science News report. Prümers said that the lidar…
The Moxos Ensemble returns to tours on European soil | El Ensamble Moxos retorna a las giras por suelo europeo
El Deber: El recorrido comprende ciudades de España y Francia | The tour includes cities in Spain and France The Bolivian group will begin this Friday a cultural exchange tour through several European cities in which they will promote their new album called Majara’iwa Three years have passed since the Moxos Ensemble’s last concerts abroad…
Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
Max Mendoza has been arrested after a judge said his 32-year enrollment at university on a government salary may be a crime AP in La Paz Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student – and a profitable one: he has been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated, much of it while being…
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