Eduardo Ruilowa, El Deber: Remembered as a man of action and impatient, whose main desire was to found a town. On February 26, 1526, he achieved one of his greatest aspirations by founding Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Admired by many and hated by others, Don Ñuflo de Chaves is considered by many historians as…
Category: Santa Cruz
Sometimes envy helps… – A veces la envidia ayuda …
Yahoo! LifeStyle: Woman hits back after being slammed over ‘inappropriate’ school-run outfit A woman has hit back after she was slammed for the outfit she donned while dropping off her young son at school in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The lawyer and fitness model, known as ‘Vanesita (Vanesa) Medina’ on…
Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) – Carpintero andino
Knowing our birds: The Andean Woodpecker Fig. 1. Yaca-yaca feeding on a beetle larva (Photo: M. Isabel Gómez). By: M. Isabel Gomez MNHN-Zoology Unit-Ornithology Section The species Colaptes rupicola, is a woodpecker that measures about 32 cm. The plumage of the mantle and the wings have a pattern of bars that help it to camouflage…
Predatory Mennonites laugh at Bolivian laws – Menonitas depredadores, se ríen de leyes bolivianas
Editorial, El Deber: A clandestine and deforesting bridge An investigative report by journalist Roberto Navia discovered that, without government authorization or any environmental impact study, more than 200 Mennonite families built a 150-meter bridge over the Parapetí River, at a cost of approximately half a million dollars, in the middle of the forests of the…
“The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” – “El sentido del humor boliviano puede ser tan fino como el inglés”
Ricardo David Herrera, El Deber; Pedro Albornoz: “The Bolivian sense of humor can be as fine as the English” For the second consecutive year, the writer, translator and art critic from Cochabamba won the Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz novel award. He is one of the voices that gains strength in national literature Albornoz also won…
‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas
by Yvette Sierra Praeli on 7 January 2022 | Translated by Sydney Sims, Mongabay: In the first 10 months of 2021, forest fires in Bolivia razed nearly 2.5 million hectares (6.2 million acres) in the department of Santa Cruz alone, exceeding the figure for the whole of 2020. In Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s biggest department, 58% of the burned…
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