ANF reports via Los Tiempos: Seven years imprisonment of the owner of a mining company for pollution The court determined that the owner of the mining company “Santiago Apóstol Silver & Tin”, Mario Jorge Cano Cruz, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment at the prison in Cantumarca de Potosí for committing crimes against public health…
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Salero: The life of a Bolivian salt gatherer
Al-Jazeera reports: Salero: The life of a Bolivian salt gatherer A salt gatherer becomes a link to the old world when Bolivia embarks on a plan to mine lithium from the Uyuni salt flat. Moises Chambi Yucra is one of the last remaining salt gatherers in the world’s largest salt flats of Salar de Uyuni…
More than 20 writers present their works
Pagina Siete reports: More than 20 writers present their works The program La Paz Reads will open the curtain with the presentation of more than 20 works, among short stories, poems and novels, by writers from La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, Oruro, Sucre and Potosí. The activity, which will be held today [04/21/2017] from 15:00,…
Argentina Returns 16th-Century Coins to Bolivia
Latin American Herald Tribune reports: Argentina Returns 16th-Century Coins to Bolivia LA PAZ – Bolivia’s foreign ministry announced Wednesday the repatriation from Argentina of 82 coins that were minted here in the 16th century. The ministry gave credit for the recovery to “efforts made by the Embassy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in Argentina,”…
Uyuni Salt Flats: Bolivia should industrialize magnesium and then lithium! current gov fails bit time!
World of Electric Vehicles reports: Expert warns Bolivia will not enter the new global energy mix with lithium In a recent interview with the Spanish news agency EFE, Bolivian lithium expert, Juan Carlos Zuleta, warned that Bolivia will not be part of the new global energy mix with lithium because it has not been able…
Chile is wrong! Technical – geological study confirms that Silala is a spring
El Diario reports: Technical – geological study confirms that Silala is a spring The waters of the Silala come from springs located on Bolivian soil ratified a technical – geological study conducted in 2016, by the Autonomous University of Tomas Frías, Potosí. A team of Potosi professionals and university students moved to Silala to study…
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