Laura Millan from Hyperdrive reports through Bloomberg: One of the world’s poorest nations is sitting on the second-largest amount of the mineral needed to power electric cars. A small army of workers from cities and villages across Bolivia boards the buses for the last leg of a commute that can last days. The meandering, bumpy dirt roads,…
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Citizens’ Collective prefer to confront before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal
EFE and ANF report via Correo Del Sur: March against re-election begins Citizens groups began yesterday marches in two parts of the country in rejection of the re-nomination of Evo Morales and Alvaro Garcia Linera for the 2019 general elections. The central mobilization that brings together several groups of citizens of the country left yesterday…
Bolivia is in Trump’s sights
El Diario reports: The State has been observed for the rights of workers; the age for child labor and human trafficking Through a journalistic note by Erick Foronda, sent to EL DIARIO, it was learned that two major setbacks were received by the Government of Bolivia in only 24 hours from the administration of President…
The APOCRYPHAL SINS Of BOLIVIA’S WORST President … wait! Let’s not forget evo is far worse!!!
Nick Dall reports for Ozy: General Mariano Melgarejo, the 18th president of Bolivia, had barely been in office a year when he was — according to some sources — defeated in battle in La Paz, the capital, by his archrival, former President Manuel Isidoro Belzu. Instead of accepting defeat, Melgarejo gate-crashed the victory party at…
Civics from 8 regions ratify the civic strike in defense of 21F
El Deber reports: Civic leaders from eight regions, except Pando, met and ratified the civic strike for December 6 in defense of the referendum vote of February 21, 2016 Fernando Cuéllar, president of the Civic Committee for Santa Cruz, said on Thursday that the citizens of eight regions, except Pando, have ratified the civic strike…
Bolivian passes to final phase of a pianist contest
Pagina Siete reports: Santiago Chávez in a previous presentation. Photo: YouTube Santiago Chávez Auzza, the 16-year-old Bolivian pianist, qualified for the final phase of the VI National and International Piano Contest “José Jacinto Cuevas” Yamaha, which takes place in Mexican territory. The contest is a biennial event, whose first edition was dedicated to the 130th…
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