The Walsh Group reports: Contractors and Engineers Travel To Bolivia to Build Suspension Footbridge CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwired – March 06, 2017) – An established partnership between Walsh Construction, Bridges to Prosperity and International Bridge Technologies resulted in the construction of a new 160-foot suspension footbridge for a remote village in Bolivia. Challoma Chico, located in the…
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Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent
Reuters reports: Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent Bolivian consumer prices rose 0.38 percent in February, the official National Statistics Institute said on Friday, marking an increase in inflation from 0.10 percent in January. Rising food and beverage prices led February’s increase. The South American natural gas exporting nation expects inflation of 5.03 percent…
Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model … WTH!?
Hoybolivia.com reports: Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model Santa Cruz.- In connection with President Evo Morales’s trip to Venezuela to commemorate the four years since Hugo Chávez’s death, congressman of the Democrat political party, Luis Felipe Dorado said that the president “continues to spend without permission Bolivian resources for his travels of private…
Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
Georgina Jiménez, writes for IC Magazine via Truth Out A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia Over the past 10 years, the area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from three million hectares in 2007[1] to more than thirty one million[2]. Precisely 28.84% of the surface of Bolivia…
Bolivia: Banana export prices decreased by 50%
From La Prensa via Freshplaza: Bolivia: Banana export prices decreased by 50% Banana export prices fell from 2.40 to 1.30 dollars per box in the last six months, stated the president of the Community Organization of Banana Workers of the Tropic of Cochabamba, Agustin Conde. According to Conde, the decrease in the international price of…
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