Heritage Daily: The Sajama Lines is an ancient network of pre-Hispanic linear paths, located in the altiplano, or highlands of western Bolivia near the Nevado Sajama volcano. The web of lines covers an area of 22,525 square kilometres (almost fifteen times larger than the Nazca lines situated over a thousand kilometres away), and ran a combined length…
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No más – evo – No more
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: We want new people It may be the first time that the whole country, everybody, coincide with some masistas. Those who yelled at the coca grower Morales, in his face, “We want new people” were telling him that they don’t want him. Neither him nor his entourage. Courage is needed to…
Fisonomía – 101 – Physiognomy
Carlos Hugo Molina, Los Tiempos: The physiognomy of the Bolivian We have to accept that we are the product of the popular national construction that was born after the Chaco War and that combined mestizos, urban and rural self-employed living in cities and autonomous territories, and informal, corporate, violent and supportive people. In order for…
Subempleo – Underemployment
Pagina Siete: The underemployment shoots up to 17% and affects 597 thousand people in the country People who are underemployed do not contribute to the AFPs, do not have a permanent job with a contract and do not receive social benefits. Until the third quarter, the unemployment rate reached 10.76%, according to the INE. La…
La Corrupción NO prescribe – Corruption DOES NOT prescribe
Radio-Fides, El Dia: On the house arrest of Achacollo The plaintiff of the embezzlement of the former Indigenous fund warns defendants that crimes of corruption do not prescribe Sobre la detención domiciliaria de Achacollo Querellante del desfalco al exfondo Indígena advierte a procesados que delitos de corrupción no prescriben The plaintiff in the case of…
Doblando el gasto – Doubling the expense
Pagina Siete: Evo and his inopportune cabinet Former President Evo Morales cannot live without power and that is why he pretends to be a parallel president, to the point that he called a meeting of his former cabinet of ministers and vice ministers, an instance that will not be dissolved and that will be in…
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