El Diario reports: According to Carlos Mesa The candidate for president by the Citizen Community (CC) alliance, Carlos Mesa, said that the authoritarian stance of Evo Morales makes him refuse to debate and go to the dirty war, in addition to fake news. “Evo Morales, the debate that you reject, reflects your authoritarian spirit. He…
Category: Mining
Lost graves of Scots miners found in abandoned Bolivian cemetery
Alison Campsie reports for the Scotsman: The long-forgotten graves of three Scots silver and tin miners have been found in an abandoned foreigner’s cemetery in Bolivia. Dr. Stewart Redwood, a geologist originally from Stirlingshire but now of La Paz, discovered the graves in the windswept and treeless mining city of Oruro, which sits high on a desert…
They denounce illegal gold exploitation in Beni
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Over these 13 years, we have involuted under this useless “government.” evo’s wrongdoings has resulted in serious damage to our wildlife and environment. Chinese came and took over our natural resources, polluting and damaging our environment as we never seem before! El Diario reports: It affects rivers and fauna Last year evidenced…
A journalist reveals the human cost of modern mining through the vivid story of a young Bolivian mine worker
Karen Hudson-Edwards reports for Science: Alicia Quispe is preparing to go to work in the adobe hut she shares with her mother, Rosa, and sister, Evelyn. The hut, located on the outskirts of the Bolivian town of Potosí, has no windows, running water, or electricity. As she walks to the job site, she carries stones…
Canvas of the Virgen del Socavón was restored
El Diario reports: Patroness of Bolivian folklore The canvas of the Virgen del Socavón [Virgin of the Mine], Patroness of the National Folklore, is duly stable and without deterioration after the armoring and insulation work, informed the person in charge of Furniture Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Carlos Rua Alanda. According to official information,…
After failures to attract investments, what?
An Editorial from El Diario: The government, with a view to obtaining investments, on both the part of United States, England, Germany and Canada, organized meetings with businessmen and capitalists in each capital of those countries and tried to encourage them and give them assurances so that they invest financial capital, technology and human capital…
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