El Deber reports: YPFB monitors affected area by the oil spill Some 65 professionals are working in mitigation tasks. Daily, test the water and the land of Ivirgarzama. The Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) contingency teams, are monitoring water at the Magariños river and land in Ivirgarzama (Cochabamba), where last Friday [08/07/2015] there was an…
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Worth a Potosi
Radio Fides published: Worth a Potosi By Carlos A. Quiroga For over four centuries, the city of Potosi has been synonymous with wealth. In Spanish there is a saying, “Vale un Potosí”, or “to be worth a Potosi”, used when speaking of something of great value. [cartoon is from El Deber, July 31, 2015. The…
Do Bolivians have an identity?
Carlos Toranzo writes in Pagina Siete: The Bolivian A discussion that is part of the social and political debate of the last thirty or forty years in Bolivia, especially since the time of the visibility of the “kataristas” cultural currents, refers to the need to find or define the identity of Bolivia. All reflection struggled…
How Moving To Bolivia Saved Our Retirement
From: How Moving To Bolivia Saved Our Retirement By David Hammond, InternationalLiving.com This article comes to us courtesy of InternationalLiving.com, the world’s leading authority on how to live, work, invest, travel, and retire better overseas. Nestled in an Andean valley at 6,000 feet, the Bolivian city of Tarija is truly one of South America’s great…
CBN volunteers cleaned Titicaca lakeside
Pagina Siete reports: CBN volunteers cleaned Titicaca lakeside In the framework of Corporate Social Responsibility, volunteers of the Bolivian National Brewery (CBN) conducted the cleaning of the Kohana Bay of Lake Titicaca. The activity was held with the Ministries of Environment and Water, Health, Justice, Culture and Tourism, Education and Foreign Affairs, and several universities…
Unchecked Pollution Befouling Majestic Lake Titicaca
Unchecked Pollution Befouling Majestic Lake Titicaca BAHIA DE COHANA, Bolivia — Jun 25, 2015, 11:52 AM ET By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press Gulls swept down to feast on hundreds of dead and dying giant frogs floating in the rancid waters along a southeastern shore of Lake Titicaca, where the algae-choked shallows reek of rotten eggs….
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