El Diario reports: New species are registered in Madidi Dozens of new species of mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and hundreds of butterflies were discovered by a scientific expedition in the Bolivian park Madidi. The terrestrial paradise of biodiversity, little explored is located in the Amazon of Bolivia and adjacent to Peru; The Madidi Reserve…
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Growing coca in Bolivia polluted our environment!
This cartoon from El Diario, depicts two people talking about questioning the fact that growing coca goes against Mother Nature. Coca crops, leaves, is used to make cocaine: damage sour soil, causes deforestation and lack of water. On top of that this government also threatens our environment y trying to push a dam in El Bala…
British drug smuggler describes life inside notorious Bolivian jail where governor snorted cocaine and murder was part of everyday life
Lewis Panther rerports for Mirror: British drug smuggler describes life inside notorious Bolivian jail where governor snorted cocaine and murder was part of everyday life Thomas McFadden spent five years inside a jail in Bolivia and watched men beaten to death but lived to tell the tale in a new film. Turning up to prison…
Contractors and Engineers Travel To Bolivia to Build Suspension Footbridge
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…
Bolivia is becoming like Somalia or Afghanistan, cocaine is taking over!
This cartoon is from Pagina Siete, 03/06/2017: It shows, a coca grower desire to pay an annual tax of only Bs50, less than $10 dollars! Somalia and/or Afghanistan have fallen to the control of small groups who with guns and money do as they [lease in those countries … similar thing is happening in Bolivia….
Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city
Harriet Mallinson reports for MailOnLine and AFP: Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city Fluorescent-coloured walls tower for up to seven stories at an altitude of 13,000ft in the city of El Alto Called ‘cholets’ by the locals they were built by…
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