Knowing our birds: The Andean Woodpecker Fig. 1. Yaca-yaca feeding on a beetle larva (Photo: M. Isabel Gómez). By: M. Isabel Gomez MNHN-Zoology Unit-Ornithology Section The species Colaptes rupicola, is a woodpecker that measures about 32 cm. The plumage of the mantle and the wings have a pattern of bars that help it to camouflage…
Category: Bolivia
The HUNT has begun! – ¡La CACERÍA comenzó!
Scott Mistler-Ferguson, In Sight Crime: Bolivia Anti-Drug Chief Target of Both Bolivia and United States The US indictment of Bolivia’s former anti-narcotics chief on drug and weapons charges means he could possibly be extradited to the United States – a move that Bolivia will decide following his arrest there on charges of illicit enrichment. Maximiliano…
The hunt begins and the pedophile trembles! – ¡Comienza la cacería y el pedófilo tiembla!
Página Siete: They suggest to coca growers “not to miss the reward” Congresswoman Luciana Campero, from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), suggested that the coca growers of the Chapare not miss out on the opportunity to receive the five million dollar reward offered by the United States to access information on Maximiliano Dávila and his links with…
Predatory Mennonites laugh at Bolivian laws – Menonitas depredadores, se ríen de leyes bolivianas
Editorial, El Deber: A clandestine and deforesting bridge An investigative report by journalist Roberto Navia discovered that, without government authorization or any environmental impact study, more than 200 Mennonite families built a 150-meter bridge over the Parapetí River, at a cost of approximately half a million dollars, in the middle of the forests of the…
They hold the MAS responsible for a judicial catastrophe – Responsabilizan al MAS de hecatombe judicial
ANF, El Diario: Judge Rafael Alcón is the example of the “hecatomb” and the “immoral misery of justice” in the country and the Movement for Socialism (MAS) is responsible for the unmerited election of the high authorities of the Council of the Judiciary, stated attorney Williams Bascopé. “The case of Judge Alcón must be the…
Sephardim in Bolivia – Sefarditas en Bolivia
Geraldine Corrales, Los Tiempos: Pávez addresses in his work the history of Sephardim in Bolivia Julio Pávez presented the book entitled “Foundation of the Villa de Oropesa Cochabamba. Neither Crusaders, nor Missionaries: Sephardim” in which he deals with the activities in a society constituted years before the arrival of the Spaniards. According to the author,…
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