Editorial, Página Siete: Cerro Rico: from apogee to debacle Paradoxes or open contradictions surround the attempt to save Cerro Rico de Potosí from disaster. Its sinking is clearly notorious, although warnings about it have long been established. In a period of 15 years, the gap in the very top of the hill has grown and…
Category: Potosi
Otro, trágico ejemplo del desgobierno de luchin – Another, tragic example of luchin’s misrule
Editorial, Los Tiempos: El Estado y el respeto a la leyes La quema, hace una semana, de tres domos de un hotel instalado en un área del salar de Uyuni próxima al límite entre los departamentos de Potosí y Oruro tiene, sin duda, un efecto perjudicial significativo en lo que se refiere a la seguridad…
After morenada scandal, Potosí will nominate Ch’utillos – Tras escándalo por morenada, Potosí postulará a Ch’utillos
El Potosi, Página Siete: The Potosí authorities decided to protect their heritage by submitting Ch’utillos to Unesco in the category of Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The controversy over the origin of the morenada had a positive effect: without political distinctions, the authorities of Potosí decided to postulate the Ch’utillos festival, including its dances, to the…
The Charm Of The Charango
The Odyssey Series, Wisconsin Public Radio [To listen to the instrument, click on the photo. To download it, use the link at the bottom]: The charango from Bolivia is thought to have originated roughly 300 years ago in Potosi, commonly designated as the “silver city.” It was crafted over time by South American Indian musicians…
Why do indigenous people flee from the Pachamama – Por qué los indígenas huyen de la Pachamama
Editorial, El Diario: A note registered in the editorial page of EL DIARIO in the edition of Sunday, March 7, made it known that in the highlands and valleys of La Paz and other departments, 500 thousand hectares of top-quality land, which were cultivated by peasants, were abandoned. who have now abandoned them and migrated…
Site work kicked off for Laguna Colorada project, Bolivia
Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy: Site preparation for the construction of a 5 MW geothermal pilot plant has kicked off for the Laguna Colorada geothermal project in the Andes of Bolivia. In a note on LinkedIn, a Project Director for Spanish Sacyr announces that preparation work has started on the pilot plant for the Laguna Colorada…
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