Maria Dombrov reports for Glacier Hub: The Andes are the longest mountain range in the world, stretching 4,500 miles long and spanning seven South American countries: Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Andean ecosystems include peatlands, grasslands, shrublands, salt flats, forests, and alpine regions. Mountain peatlands, or bofedales, play a particularly central role in the rearing…
Category: Social Unrest
Trump administration denounces Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, but remains silent on Bolivia. Huge mistake!
Andres Oppenheimer writes for Miami Herald, for the Spanish version, please click here: When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited a number of Latin American countries last week, he made several speeches denouncing the dictatorships of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. But, regrettably, he didn’t say a word about Bolivia. It wasn’t an oversight. The Trump…
Meet the Candidates: Bolivia
Americas Quarterly Online reports: In his controversial push for a fourth term, Evo Morales faces another former president. ———————————————————————————————– Election Date: Oct. 20 Format: Two rounds. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes in the first round, or 40% with a 10-point lead over second place, the two leading candidates will compete in a run-off…
Ten years on, family of Irishman killed in Bolivia still wait for answers
Tom Hennigan reports for The Irish Times: Investigation into death of Michael Dwyer in police raid held up by ‘farcical’ related trial Michael Dwyer: The Bolivian state’s version of what happened leading up to and during the police raid in which Dwyer was killed has been contradicted by eyewitnesses and leaked video from inside…
Permanent tourism and economic crisis [evo’s boondoggles]
A clear strong Editorial from El Diario; graph displayed below was found when searching in the web for Bolivia economic crisis: The growth of the State’s external debt; the decrease in international reserves and external investments; the increase in public debt; Among other aspects, they are not good indicators of the country’s health, at a…
SUPPORTING DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND STANDARDS IN BOLIVIA AND THROUGHOUT LATIN AMERICA; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 62
The United States Congress has issued this Resolution that comes very handy for us, who want to protect our democratic freedoms and hold a clean presidential election, this October 2019. [picture from the internet portrays evo’s intend to remain forever in power] The world now knows it is because of evo that we are in…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 