The New York Times wrote bout our national sport: Bolivian Clubs Are at Home in Thin Air By EWAN MacKENNAMARCH 10, 2015 Tucked tightly among the high-rises of the Miraflores district of La Paz, Bolivia, the Hernando Siles stadium is one of those great South American dust bowls drenched in character. Yet few stadiums anywhere…
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ALMOST 2.9 MILLION BOLIVIAN PEOPLE LIVE IN HIGH MOUNTAINS
Mirna Echave reports for La Prensa: PEOPLE INHABIT IN TOWNS LOCATED OVER 3,500 METERS [above sea level] ALMOST 2.9 MILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN HIGH MOUNTAIN The Government made a diagnosis on the mountainous area of Bolivia. In Bolivia, 2.9 million people live at locations above 3,500 meters above sea level, according to the Prime Diagnostic…
Bolivian Giant Armadillo endangered
El Diario reports: Giant Armadillo endangered The giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus, Kerr, 1792) is vulnerable, said the latest study presented in the Red Book of vertebrate wildlife of Bolivia as assessed by 2008. This animal would’ve been sacrificed as a result of floods in the lowlands of northern La Paz and Beni. Susana Carpio, head…
Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain
El Diario reports: Remittances: Four of every ten dollars come from Spain Bolivia in 2014, received in remittances the sum of $1,163.6 million dollars, a 1.5% lower amount as compared to 2013, when Bolivia received $1,181.8 million dollars, according to the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB). According to a report from this institution, the decrease…
What is exactly ochlocracy? Why do I assert current Bolivian government is the worst of all?!
A cartoon from El Diario that portrays our reality: Here in this cartoon from 01/30/2015, the Foreign Affairs Minister is being questioned by the psychologist: “… Mr. Last Inca, what you have in your head is a toxic, confused disorder…” and up above the head of the politician it reads: “communism, christianism, socialism, terrorism, sionism,…
Five new varieties of wheat to be grown in Bolivia this 2015!
De http://www.hoybolivia.com: They launched this year 5 varieties of wheat The National Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Innovation (INIAF) will launch five new varieties of wheat this year, days CEO, Hans Mercado. “This year 2015, will be the release of these varieties,” he said at the launch of the Public Presentation of INIAF’s 2014 Final…
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