Reuters reports through Yahoo news: Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia’s Rosatom LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia and Russia’s state-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Sunday they had signed a provisional agreement for the construction of $300 million nuclear complex in the Andean nation. Under the terms of the accord, which needs…
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Due to lack of coherent policies, the castana [chestnut] market faces saturation
Roxana Villa reports for El Deber: Chestnut crisis facing market saturation The markets for the Bolivian product [castaña] are closing, due to the import of nearly 6,000 tons of Brazilian almond. The sector calls for more regulation. Despite the $192 million dollars generated by the export of chestnut [bertholletia excelsa] in 2015, the northern Amazon…
Worldwide embarrassment: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals
CNN reports: Bolivia’s president faces multiple scandals By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Bolivian president Evo Morales. First, the Bolivian leader had to accept defeat in a referendum making his current presidential term his last, and now he is at the center of a scandal that reads like a Bolivian…
Lets put a stop to ochlocracy, lets face Bolivia’s new era!
Andres Oppenheimer writes about Bolivia [bold] in the Miami Herald: The Oppenheimer Report: Latin America’s new era Highlights Opposition win in Bolivia’s Feb. 21 referendum was a new sign of the demise of leftist populism in the region Populist leaders have lost elections in Argentina, Venezuela, and Bolivia, and are in trouble in Ecuador and…
The charm of streetcars in La Paz … trams should be back!
Isabel Velasco writes and remembers beautifully in El Diario. Tram pictures were dowloaded from the internet: The charm of streetcars in La Paz To protect us from the evil of the “micro”, “minibus” and “radio taxis” that suffer the paceños, we evoke nostalgically to the friendly and cheerful trams, silent witnesses of a thousand and…
Bolivian History 101 – 137 years of unjust confinement
El Diario reports: February 14: an ominous date for Bolivia 137 years of unjust confinement • Bolivians remember, wihth eagereness to vindication, that on a February 14, 1879 Chilean troops invaded our coastlines and we were held landlocked eversince. • More than a century of unfulfilled promises deepen the desire for justice. Today [02/14/2016] it…
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