Aaron van Wirdum reports for Bitcoin Magazine: Bolivian Authorities Arrest 60 ‘Cryptocurrency Promoters’ The Bolivian Financial System Supervision Authority (ASFI) arrested 60 “cryptocurrency promoters” last week. According to a statementpublished by the ASFI, in which it refers to bitcoin and several altcoins, the arrestees were carrying out “training activities” relating to investments that have “characteristics of…
Category: Social Unrest
Chilean conniving centenary behavior continues to damage Bolivian economy!
News Xinhua Net reports: Chile customs strike leaves hundreds of trucks stranded at Bolivian border LA PAZ, May 24 (Xinhua) — An indefinite strike declared by Chile’s customs association, ANFACH, left around 850 Bolivian trucks stuck at the border unable to cross into Chile on Wednesday. [photo obtained from the internet] Speaking to the press,…
Metals from Bolivian mines affect crops and pose potential health risk, study suggests
Science Daily reports: Metals from Bolivian mines affect crops and pose potential health risk, study suggests Date: May 24, 2017 Source: University of Oklahoma Summary: Exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the world’s largest silver deposit, may put residents at…
Can We Really Eat Invasive Species into Submission?
Michael Snyder writes for Scientific American: Can We Really Eat Invasive Species into Submission? The tale of a giant Amazon fish reveals the promise and peril of “invasivorism” The paiche, which can weigh up to 400 pounds, is eating its way through freshwater fish populations in Bolivia. Now people are eating the paiche in an…
Church affirms that lynchings ‘are not worthy of a people like Bolivia’
ANF reports via El Dia: Church affirms that lynchings ‘are not worthy of a people like Bolivia’ Fernando Cuéllar, president of the Committee for Santa Cruz, expressed his indignation and total rejection for the ‘criminal, vandalic and inhuman’ act ‘that pretends to do justice by own hand’. Monsignor Sergio Gualberti affirmed yesterday that the lynchings…
Again! Bolivian gov’s ineptitude aims to put at risk business property … WTH!?
El Diario reports: Legal standard puts at risk business property • The private sector is in emergency due to the approval of the Social Enterprises bill in the Chamber of Deputies. CEPB President Ronald Nostas said that it is unacceptable and irrational to establish a legal causal when delay in the payment of services, wages…
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