Are we resembling Somalia? Can we improve our living conditions or at least revert this??! El Deber reports: Piracy, a way of life which are reproduced Smuggling. There are 1,500 uniformed in Challapata. They seized 70 vehicles ‘Parrots’ are spies who warn the smugglers when troops of the Operating Customs Control (COA) are approaching. If…
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Bolivian Gabriela Flores (Kirah Design) wins a Cartier award!!!
This is great and proud news for this Sunday! After the violence in Challapata, San German and stupid and useless remarks from current president to the US, this is certainly what we need! Pagina Siete reports: Gabriela Flores received a statuette and $20,000 A Bolivian won the Cartier Award between thousand entrepreneurs INITIATIVE she founded…
Bolivian media under governmental control?!
Los Tiempos editorial which reflects current pressures to freedom of speech and free press: Step by step towards media control As in other cases, a just cause is being reduced to the status of pretext for purposes as ignoble, as they are required to be masked A common feature of the Governments of the countries…
For lack of markets, Bolivian sugar price drops… how about the future?
There are no better ways to undermine production like what is happening in Bolivia… El Deber, Carla Paz reports: Drops the price of sugar for lack of markets Product. Because of the oversupply, the price of a 5 kg bag fell from Bs30 to Bs27. Industrialists and sugar cane producers express their concern. The IBCE…
Bolivia mining cooperatives’ 101: Colquiri – coops from within
This cartoon is from La Razon, September 26, 2012, illustrates how violent (dynamite in their mouths) the miners became… Ivan Arias makes an excellent description of how mining cooperatives function in Bolivia, so we can try to understand the violence, anarchy and “pay-back” from these supporters of current government. Article appeared in Pagina Siete: Colquiri:…
TIPNIS under fire!! government signed contract to re-start phase I of the road…
Unfortunately, our TIPNIS’ national park and Isiboro Secure indigenous territory, continues to be in jeopardy! so much for the self-named protectors of mother earth… Juan Carlos Veliz writes for Pagina Siete: Indigenous people say the Government seeks to fulfill a campaign promise Evo resumes construction of the section I of the route through the TIPNIS…
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