The United Kingdom has issued a travel warning for people who want to come to Bolivia: Foreign Travel Advice BOLIVIA Summary Still current at: 21 July 2015 Updated: 21 July 2015 Latest update: Summary – industrial action in Potosí has led to road closures and shortages of food and water; if you attempt travel…
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Peanut captures the attention of European companies
Tatiana Chavez reports for Los Tiempos: Peanut captures the attention of European companies In the Second Business Roundtable of Bolivia Pavilion at Expo Milan, the Cochabamba peanut struck 34 European business representatives. Its nutritional properties, its biological quality, but above all its flavor caused impact on European companies, especially in the 14 specialized in dried…
Flood the Madidi to stay in power
Raul Penaranda writes in Pagina Siete: Flood the Madidi to stay in power There is only limited economic vision that drives the Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, a drive almost exclusively on extractive tasks to achieve economic growth. His close look, in which (almost) only enter options as drilling gas fields and mining, as well…
Bolivian Carmen Rosa: The fearless cholita wrestler
From Sounds and Colors: CARMEN ROSA: THE FEARLESS CHOLITA WRESTLER By Ellen Gordon: The indigenous Aymara people have been discriminated against since colonial times and make up the second largest ethnic group In Bolivia. The Aymara’s knowledge of the land, ability to adapt to modernisation, and extensive trading networks have ensured their survival even when…
How Moving To Bolivia Saved Our Retirement
From: How Moving To Bolivia Saved Our Retirement By David Hammond, InternationalLiving.com This article comes to us courtesy of InternationalLiving.com, the world’s leading authority on how to live, work, invest, travel, and retire better overseas. Nestled in an Andean valley at 6,000 feet, the Bolivian city of Tarija is truly one of South America’s great…
Is there reason to believe that Bolivian exports reached the bottom?!
Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Had the exports bottomed out? Data from the National Statistics Institute are lapidary: until May the value of Bolivian exports fell by 29%, with a severe drop in revenue for the country to the striking amount of $1,572 million dollars, just in the first five months of this year!…
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