AP reports via The Oklahoman: Tiny objects, big dreams in Bolivia festival LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Thousands of working class Bolivians crowd the streets of La Paz every year to buy miniature cars, houses and wads of fake dollar bills representing their dreams of wealth. During the pre-Columbian tradition called the Alasitas festival, Bolivians…
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China’s Sinohydro again highly questioned in Bolivia!
ANF reports via El Deber: Deputy will sue Sinohydro again Monasterio indicated that it collected new information to file another lawsuit against the Chinese company. Congressman Tomás Monasterio (Democrat) will activate another criminal action against the Chinese Sinohydro, despite the death threats he received by a group of people during the inspection he did to…
An attempt to go nuclear?
Miguel Melendres reports in El Deber, via hoybolivia.com: Hydrocarbons transfers half of its responsibilities to Energies The Minister of Hydrocarbons, Luis Sánchez, delivered this morning 50% of his responsibilities, until yesterday, to the new Energy Ministry, which will be at the head of the new authority, Rafael Alarcón. “We will be a single team to…
Chile channeled the Silala for about 20 years, even without authorization
La Razon reports via hoybolivia.com: Chile channeled the Silala for about 20 years, even without authorization Bolivia has studies underwritten by Chile that show that the country has channeled the Silala for about 20 years, of which a part was developed even before the concession process of 1908. The country does not rule out including…
2017 Zayed Future Energy Prize winner is Bolivian!
El Deber reports: Bolivian solar project wins in Abu Dhabi The project of San Juan de Yapacaní was awarded with $100,000 dollars and was chosen among the 15 finalists and out of a total of 1,678 nominations. A solar energy project carried out by Sacred Heart High School in the city of San Juan de…
Bolivia’s Forest Loss is larger the size of Israel, El Salvador, Slovenia, Jamaica, and Lebanon combined!
A very important and alarming Sub-Editorial from Pagina Siete: Forest Loss Bolivia ranks seventh among the 10 countries with the greatest loss of forest areas between 1990 and 2015, according to a report from the digital version of Data La Nación, from Argentina, which in turn uses data from the Statistics Unit of the Organization…
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