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…
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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!…
Costs and landscapes of Bolivia to seduce even Hollywood
Andrea Monasterios reports for El Deber: Costs and landscapes of Bolivia to seduce even Hollywood In the first half of 2015, George Clooney and Werner Herzog filmed two films in the country. International TV programs and even video portrayed our culture. “Our brand is crisis”, produced by George Clooney movie, starring Sandra Bullock, the first…
Environmental Sustainability Issues in Bolivia
This excerpt, from the Foundation for Sustainable Development has to serve us to sit and reflect over our future: Environmental Sustainability Issues in Bolivia One of the most pressing environmental sustainability concerns in Bolivia is soil erosion from overgrazing and poor cultivation methods, including slash and burn agriculture. Over the past few decades, use of…
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