Ricardo David Herrera, El Deber; Pedro Albornoz: “The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” For the second consecutive year, the writer, translator and art critic from Cochabamba won the Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz novel award. He is one of the voices that gains strength in national literature Albornoz also won…
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‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas
by Yvette Sierra Praeli on 7 January 2022 | Translated by Sydney Sims, Mongabay: In the first 10 months of 2021, forest fires in Bolivia razed nearly 2.5 million hectares (6.2 million acres) in the department of Santa Cruz alone, exceeding the figure for the whole of 2020. In Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s biggest department, 58% of the burned…
Jukumari – Spectacled bear
Los osos andinos en el bosque seco de Tarija. | Cortesía Los osos andinos en el bosque seco de Tarija. | Cortesía Geraldine Corrales Arandia, Los Tiempos: Wines and honey to support the conservation of the Andean bear Jukumari bear conservation is a job that requires a lot of support across the country. The program…
Let’s stop being reactive – Dejemos de ser reactivos
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Learning from the rains Few natural phenomena are as recurrent in our country as the floods that occur every year in the rainy season, and the way we deal with their consequences makes it necessary to stop seeing the problem as if it were a fatality imposed by designs beyond human control….
Equipo boliviano triunfa en concurso internacional de biología sintética – Bolivian team triumphs in international synthetic biology contest
Pagina Siete: The project that the group, made up of more than 60 people, presented was a biosensor that detects arsenic in water (VIDEO). Bolivia won the gold medal in the international iGEM competition on synthetic biology. The project that the group of more than 60 people presented is related to a biosensor that detects…
Carro eléctrico – Quantum – Electric car
Giuliana Jaldin, Los Tiempos: Quantum surprises with an electric car that can be controlled from the cell phone Quantum Motors Marketing Manager, Marcelo Durán, said that the company brought several attractions for visitors to the 37th Cochabamba International Fair (FIC) to enjoy. Among the most prominent are a disassembled electric car so that people can…
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