Carlos Heras, EFE reports for FoxNews Latino: Genetically modified crops spark controversy in Bolivia Agriculture, which accounts for about 15 percent of Bolivia’s gross domestic product, is at the center of a controversy over genetically modified crops, with the government limiting the use of transgenic seeds to soybeans and farmers demanding expanded use to increase…
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Affected people from dried Poopo Lake, give alternatives to the drought
Pagina Siete reports: To the Governor of Oruro Affected people from the Poopó give alternatives to the drought The communities affected by the drought of Lake Poopo raised alternative projects to the governor of Oruro, Victor Hugo Vásquez, and technicians. The lack of water in the second mirror of the country’s largest water affects a…
The masismo over the years, have suffered democratic defeats!
An excerpt from Ivan Arias’ excellent column, counting errors and defeats of the masismo, the full article in Spanish, can be read using the link at the bottom: Masismo defeats! Making a review of the past 10 years, we find some milestones that demonstrate that opposition, in its various expressions, was not absent and in…
Over the last ten years, anarchy has sprouted: Cowardly aggression of drivers in La Paz
El Diario reports: Cowardly aggression of drivers in La Paz • Fejuve ensures that will not allow increase in tariffs to passengers The drivers of public transport yesterday [01/11/2016] staged riots in the vicinity of the Simon Bolivar Avenue, near Hernando Siles Stadium, when they tried to force drivers to charge fares with an increase…
Between what is said and done… corruption is present under current Bolivian government!
An Editorial from El Diario: Between what is said and done The first revelations of some news inconvenience for the Government and the somewhat later approach of the same authorities, indicate much difference or contradiction. In the first impact the usual surge “heads will roll”, with greater emphasis if the damage is economic and the…
High Aspirations: Freddy Mamani and his cholets
From The New Yorker: High Aspirations Photographs by PETER GRANSER Introduction by JUDITH THURMAN The Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre doesn’t have an office, use a computer, or draw formal blueprints. He sketches his plans on a wall or transmits them orally to his associates. Since 2005, Mamani and his firm have completed sixty projects…
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