By Ronald MacLean Abaroa, El Dia: More than a single candidate, we need an integrated candidacy …the winner does NOT take all Recent polls by businessman Marcelo Claure show a strong preference among Bolivians for a single opposition candidate selected through open primaries. However, this demand has not resonated with the main presidential hopefuls gathered…
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With tilin, shady contracts emerge as corruption booms! | ¡Con tilín surgen contratos turbios mientras la corrupción crece!
By Erbol: IN THE IMPERIAL CITY Potosinos mobilize in defense of lithium and question the contracts There were two marches, one by Comcipo and another by UATF. Photos: Al Punto Noticias and Potosí Digital. Different entities in Potosí held protest marches this Monday in defense of the department’s lithium reserves. This comes amid controversy over…
Bolivia Prepares to Launch Its First Bitcoin Mining Operation | Bolivia se prepara para explotar su primera mina de Bitcoins
By El Diario: The gas that Bolivia burns in its wells and the residues from sugarcane can be used to generate electricity to power Bitcoin mining centers. These centers convert energy into computing power, which connects to cryptocurrency mining pools via the internet. Diego Monroy Marinkovic, a project engineer for power generation with Capstone microturbines…
Multisectoral Strike With Demonstrations Nationwide | Paro multisectorial con movilizaciones en todo el país
By Ernesto Estremadoiro Flores, El Deber: Mobilization Multisectoral Strike to Proceed Without Blockades but With Demonstrations Nationwide Different Sectors to Take to the Streets but Assure They Won’t Disrupt the Public / Photo: ED Retail vendors, industrialists, and productive sectors across the country unite in opposition to the seventh provision of Financial Law 1613. The protest…
MAS has turned Bolivia into “a pariah state” | El MAS convirtió a Bolivia en “un Estado paria”
By Brujula Digital: According to a U.S. congressman, MAS has turned Bolivia into “a pariah state” Carlos Antonio Giménez criticized Evo Morales’ government and its impact on the Bolivian economy U.S. Congressman Carlos Antonio Giménez, who represents Florida’s 26th congressional district, stated that the Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) has turned Bolivia into “a pariah state…
History is somewhat different from what we were told | La historia es un tanto diferente a la que nos contaron
By Juan Jose Toro, Vision 360: Sucre and His Intentions The call for the election of deputies to convene in an assembly, and perhaps the assembly itself, was nothing more than a reaffirmation of the will that Sucre had already expressed at the beginning of February 1825. Where was Antonio José de Sucre 200 years…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 