Japan builds physics lab in Bolivia

AAP reports for SBS: Japan builds physics lab in Bolivia Japan will help build a laboratory to study cosmic rays in the mountains of Bolivia. Japan will finance the construction of a $US5 million ($A6.52 million) laboratory in Bolivia for the study of cosmic rays, Japanese Nobel laureate Takaaki Kajita says. The winner of the…

Bolivia president undergoes paternity test in scandal

AFP reports in YahooNews: Bolivia president undergoes paternity test in scandal A court has ordered Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales to undergo a paternity test to answer claims by his ex-partner Gabriela Zapata that he is indeed the father of her child A court has ordered Bolivia’s leftist president Evo Morales to undergo a paternity…

An ethnography of Bolivian Aymara traders in the global economy

A book by Oxford University Press:     About the Book Based on years of fieldwork, this ethnography of the Bolivian Aymara trading system and its networks and economic strategies examines one of the most up-and-coming forms of indigenous entrepreneurship on the American continent, in a region where the indigenous population is still stigmatized for…

UCB awards a scholarship to the creator of the Bolivian Wall-E robot

Pagina Siete reports: UCB awards a scholarship to the creator of the Bolivian Wall-E robot Esteban Quispe Churata, the creator of the replica of the Bolivian Wall-E, is benefiting, starting this semester, with a scholarship in the career of Mechatronics Engineering at the Universidad Católica Boliviana. He is in first semester and already stands out…

Bolivia has “changed” thanks to the egocentric coca-grower leader … WTH!

The following cartoons published yesterday, depict Bolivian reality after more than 10 years of the ochlocratic government: From Pagina Siete: The pending files on the government’s need-to-do’s has on the left side all the “approved: projects that will serve to improve the image of this president. The files on the right are projects on: health,…