Category: Holidays

Road blockade: Yapacani – Santa Cruz; and TIPNIS UPDATE

Today, PAT TV channel around 6:50am reported a road blockade that started around 21:00 hours (8/8/2011) in Yapacani. So, Santa Cruz is blocked on the road to Chapare, Cochabamba, La Paz and harbor ports in Chile and Peru. The only alternative is the old road (poor condition) to Cochabamba through a region called Siberia (rough…

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Bolivian government lost the compass…

This statement summarizes what former elected Vice-President Victor Hugo Cardenas said, in a radio program –Panamericana- on Sunday August 7, 2011: Governmental messages leave a feeling of uncertainty and confrontation. Cardenas said that the messages from the authorities during the National festivities and the Army anniversary leave a sensation of uncertainty and confrontation, and also…

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New hotel accommodations in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Santa Cruz de la Sierra is regarded as the most entrepreneurial, beautiful city in Bolivia and that is correct!!! People who come here, I heard them say, “this looks like the Caribbean, where is the sea?” It appears that this part of Bolivia resembles those idyllic touristic places that most Americans and Europeans like so…

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Today is Bolivian Independence Day!! God bless Bolivia!!

Thank you dear reader for choosing Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World in this 186th BIRTHDAY!  To help me celebrate this Special Day, I thought pictures are better than words, this one portrays Bolivian innocence in Rancho Nuevo, rural Santa Cruz. From El Deber,  August 6, 2011. I also decided music helps connect better. So, if you…

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Increasing violence and crime, Bolivia 2011

This cartoon appeared in El Diario, August 4, 2011. It shows two smiling thieves, a frightened citizen and two policemen passing by with filing folders under their arms. One of the thieves says: “shss, don’t yell, they will not notice you, can’t you see they are desk police?” Crime and violence have been scalating in Bolivia….

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