Miguel Lazcano reports for La Razon: The Governor’s Office of the Potosí Department yesterday requested the Executive Body [central government] to analyze the possibility of militarizing the area surrounding the Mallku Khota mine, whose concession is held by the Canadian company South American Silver. The order was made yesterday by Governor Felix Gonzales Bernal, who…
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Is this anarchy or what?
Unfortunately and progressively, we have become witnesses of the deterioration of our way of life, Los Tiempos reports: The rescue of three people taken hostage by herders of Mallku Khota is difficult; the villagers want Government authorities and the Bolivian Mining Corporation (Comibol) to be present in the site and also want the rescission of…
Potosi and Tarija will push for Federalism (this post didn’t appear on 4/20/12)
Bolivia continues to change, we went from a Republic to a Pluri-national State. Now, two of the nice Bolivian departments want to shift from a Unitary type of government to a Federal one. This news appeared in http://www.hoybolivia.com: The President of the civic Committee of Tarija, Walter Mogro, announced a meeting with civic of Potosí…
In Potosi: Cayara Hotel, 400 years of history
Alejandra Pau writes for Pagina Siete: Its five courtyards, dozens of corridors and hallways, its Chapel and rooms have passed families of the nobility and prominent figures in the history of the Alto Peru [colonial name of current Bolivia, the high Peru] and Bolivia during no less than four centuries. Hacienda Cayara is almost hidden…
From Bolivia with love: HAPPY EASTER
Bolivia is mostly a Christian society, and mainly Catholic, and as such today is even greater than Christmas itself! So, I wanted to share these lovely images of the Holy Spirit, one from a stained glass I bought in Washington DC a few years back and a colonial painting from one of our Andean Catholic…
Bolivian government’s pathetic politics…
Bolivian humor is used to diffuse frustration and impotence regarding how laws are not enforced, how public safety is almost nonexistent, how current political party in government wants to erase our past, as if our parents and their grandparents before had nothing to contribute to being a Bolivian citizen: This is from El Diario, March…
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