PARIS BEACON MARCH 14, 2022 The initial expulsion of the migrants sparked criticism from the opposition to the government of Bolivian President Luis Arce. A Ukrainian couple who escaped from the war in their country arrived in Bolivia this Sunday (03.13.2022) after being rejected a day earlier, after the government apologized and invited them to…
Category: Santa Cruz
Misiones de Chiquitos: American Renaissance and Baroque Music – Música Renacentista y Barroca Americana
Jorge Soruco, Página Siete: Baroque Music Festival will revive with 130 concerts 26 casts from Bolivia and 19 from different parts of the planet will participate. The venues for the recitals will be Santa Cruz and Chiquitos. After four years of waiting, the XIII International Festival of American Renaissance and Baroque Music “Misiones de Chiquitos”…
Ñuflo de Chaves: The great protagonist of the history of Santa Cruz – El gran protagonista de la historia cruceña
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…
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…
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