John Otis writes for OPB: A vineyard in Tarija, Bolivia, the center of the country’s wine industry. A growing number of wineries here are improving their techniques, ramping up production and starting to export, as global interest in Bolivia’s award-winning wines grows.Insights/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Bolivia is better known for snow-capped mountains than sun-drenched vineyards,…
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Laguna Verde – Lake’s emerald green waters
Atlas Obscura reports: Laguna Verde This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim. Laguna Verde lies in the extreme southwest of Bolivia, not far from the border with Chile. Depending on the strength of the winds, which whip up the water, minerals, and sediments within…
BOLIVIA’S ‘FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH’ IS YET ANOTHER REASON YOU NEED TO VISIT SOUTH AMERICA ASAP
James Booth reports for D’marge: Lost summits. Crunching glaciers. Barren plains. Bolivia’s fault-forged landscape is known for attracting climbers, hikers and mountain bikers more than Pink Flamingo Enthusiasts looking to chill in a giant plunge pool. That may be set to change. While tourism numbers languished around 300,000 per year in the early 2000’s recent reports indicate Bolivia now sees around…
OAS Says Lula Forced the Company to Undertake Bolivia Construction Project
Felipe Bächtold & José Marques, Folha; Paula Bianchi, The Intercept Brasil, report for Folha de Sao Paulo: Case was shared by Lava Jato prosecutors; former president denies illicit While negotiating a plea bargain agreement, businessman Léo Pinheiro, former president of OAS, said the construction company undertook work in Bolivia to please former president Lula (PT)….
How evo is now perceived by the world’s socialist community …
Bolivian Thoughts Opinion: They usually tend to amaze me, I’m talking about the self-labelled socialists that pullulate our world … during the 90’s they were mostly known as the watermelons … red inside and green on the outside, as they intended to reinvent themselves as their “logic and theory” became impractical, while environmental issues were…
evo promotes bullying instead of debate of ideas, what a lousy jerk!
El Diario reports: In Potosí Mesa denounces “bullying” of the MAS CARLOS MESA, CITIZEN COMMUNITY CANDIDATE WAS THE LAST DAYS IN POTOSÍ. Carlos Mesa denounced yesterday that a group of clash of militants of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) committed provocations, in the style of bullying, against followers of the Citizen Community (CC) in the…
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