El Diario reports: Bolivia was filled with used cars According to the Single Register for Municipal Tax Administration (RUAT) and the National Statistics Institute (INE), in 2013, the Bolivian fleet had a record of 1,326,833 vehicles, up by 9.95% than in 2012, when it reached 1,206,751 vehicles. Other official figures show that the national fleet…
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Will Bolivia’s Lifeless Lake Poopo Ever Return?
Dimitri O’Donnell reports for teleSUR: Will Bolivia’s Lifeless Lake Poopo Ever Return? It was once Bolivia’s second biggest lake but climate change and industrial negligence has left it desertified. Bolivian’s fear this latest setback could be permanent. A two-hour drive from the western Bolivian city of Oruro takes you to a series of beaten off-road…
Bolivia Cholita Mountain Climbers
AP images spotlight reports: Bolivia Cholita Mountain Climbers Photos by Juan Karita At first glance, the indigenous Bolivian women don’t look much like mountain climbers, with their colorful, multilayered skirts and fringed shawls. But their helmets, polarized goggles and crampons attached to their shoes give them away as mountaineers who accompany their husbands, often as…
Bolivia has low consumption of vegetables
El Diario reports: Bolivia has low consumption of vegetables Every Bolivian consumes an average of 150 grams (g) of vegetables, when should eat about 400 grams to maintain their health, according to Juan Jose Estrada, coordinator of the National Vegetable Program, from the Rural Development Ministry. “Our consumption is low. Bolivia is one of the…
The odyssey of children that brought smallpox vaccine in their bodies
Ivone Juarez reports for Pagina Siete: The odyssey of children that brought smallpox vaccine in their bodies The Spanish doctor Jose Salvany was part of the crusade that brought the cure to the country. He died in Cochabamba, in misery. In 1779, the military doctor Francisco Xavier de Balmis witnessed the havoc that smallpox had…
Indigenous Bolivian women scale mountains outside La Paz
From The Times of India: Indigenous Bolivian women scale mountains outside La Paz AP | Dec 22, 2015, 10.45 AM IST LA PAZ, Bolivia: At first glance, the indigenous Bolivian women don’t look much like mountain climbers, with their colorful, multilayered skirts and fringed shawls. But their helmets, polarized goggles and crampons attached to their…
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