An excellent article by former supporter of evo: Alvaro Puente for El Deber. Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Me personally had always expected that from evo, I saw him when he was dealing with us in alternative development … I have seen his actions, I knew what to expect from him and of course, I was extremely…
Category: Mining
What life is like for the teenage miners of Potosi, Bolivia
Kenneth Dickerman and Photo editor Simone Francescangeli for The Washington Post: “El Tio” and a miner. “El Tio” is a miner’s god that presides over every tunnel entrance. Every day, miners offer him coca leaves, cigarettes and alcohol, hoping it will bring good fortune. (Simone Francescangeli) Any celebration is a good opportunity to drink and forget miners’ living…
The Bolivian mountain that eats miners
The Rich Mountain of Potosi (Cerro Rico) has been an enormous source of wealth. An old say, worldwide: “It is worth a Potosi” (Vale un Potosi) summarizes its world class! Potosi was larger than New York, had electricity before Paris … and yet … we rad below the sad, real life that those miners had…
Oruro Governorate: Lake Poopó grew to more than 1,300 kilometers and it’s time to stop mining access!
The Oruro Governor must now take appropriate measures to ensure sustainable development of this lake. We knew that a source of the draining of this lake was mining activities, whereas they would be illegal or not, they should stop using this water. People complain about their way of living, they use natural resources ot the…
Bolivia: Civic Committees Call For President To End Re-election Campaign
Situation report by Stratfor: Bolivia: Civic Committees Call For President To End Re-election Campaign Members from seven civic committees have called for Bolivian President Evo Morales to end his campaign for re-election, La Razon reported Jan. 18. The committees set a Jan. 22 deadline for Morales to leave the race, saying that their movements will…
evo’s ineptness will make us lose the lithium market, due of his incompetence to govern!
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: If this becomes a reality, Bolivia would have lost a great source of revenue! Mainly due to the ineptness of the autocrat coca caudillo. The Salar the Uyuni is where lithium can be found in huge quantity, ideal to be a source for the energy market. However, this ruling ochlocracy has lost…
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