This is an interesting but sad article, unless we do something, damage could be irreversible! Urban Growth Contaminating Lake Titicaca Nate Berg Jan 12, 2012 Reuters One of the largest and most famous lakes in South America is facing a gradual threat from its shores. Urban growth and increasing populations in the areas around Lake…
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Bolivian public safety failure and escalating crime rates
Over the years, public safety has decreased at an alarming rate! The worst happens in beautiful Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Not only drug trafficking has brought violence to our streets, drug addicts commit felonies and are obviously more violent. The cartoon from El Diario, January 9, 2012 portrays our sad and frustrating reality. Crime rates…
Cancer illness and how is dealt inside Latin American and American way of doing politics…
There are a lot of similarities worldwide regarding politician’s behavior. This time I’d like to digress on the incredible recurrence of cancer diagnostics in so many LA presidents around the same time: Paraguay, Venezuela, Brazil (former) and Argentina current presidents had or are in the middle of some sort of cancer treatment. Those news became…
If traveling across Bolivia, PLS watch out from dengue!!
Pagina Siete reports today about dengue, please take precautions: [The graph shows in orange and red the frequency of cases reported.] Residents of 20 municipalities close to the road that links La Paz with Cochabamba and Santa Cruz are the most affected by dengue. They consider that the vector is incubated in the river and tributaries…
Bolivia’s breakthrough on traditional medicine
El Deber posted this news on its website, yesterday afternoon (picture below obtained from the internet): A “Hepato-biliary syrup”, made with Andean plant extract, became the first drug registered as legal by the Bolivian Ministry of Health which, as explained this Wednesday, the authorization to go ahead was made in order to rescue traditional medicine….
Dengue kills 53 people in Bolivia during 2011
Pat at 19:56 tonight reported that Cedes Santa Cruz will probably call an orange alert as dengue is increasing dangerously. El Deber reported today about 53 people dying to dengue this year: “Santa Cruz have had around 32 dead and 16 Beni”, reported the Minister of Health, Nila Heredia, after a coordination meeting with sector…
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