Reuters reports and photo from Pagina Siete; Bolivian deputy interior minister killed by miners: report By Daniel Ramos | LA PAZ Bolivian Deputy Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes was beaten to death by striking mineworkers after being kidnapped, local media reported on Thursday, citing a radio station director who said he saw his body. His death…
Category: Social Unrest
Miners’ protest in Bolivia becomes deadly
Reuters reports in Today OnLine: Miners’ protest in Bolivia becomes deadly At least one person was killed and dozens injured in Bolivia on Thursday (August 24) after miners and riot police exchanged sticks of dynamite and tear gas during a protest to demand better work conditions. The National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia (FENCOMIN),…
Is evo loosing credibility, power?
Over ten years after undisputed vertical control, $150 billion dollars wasted, large corruption at all levels, booming narcotrafficking, he is finally loosing the grip, as this cartoon from El Diario clearly displays!
Bolivia prosecutors drop key charge against president’s ex
AFP reports for Business Standard: Bolivia prosecutors drop key charge against president’s ex Bolivian prosecutors has said they have dropped influence-peddling charges against President Evo Morales’s jailed ex-girlfriend, who is at the center of a steamy case involving allegations of corruption and a hidden love child. Gabriela Zapata, a former manager at a Chinese engineering…
662,000 tons in drought losses
Miguel Angel Roca reports for El Deber: 662,000 tons in drought losses The figure corresponds to the effects registered in some crops in the eastern part of the department [Santa Cruz]. In resources it implies a loss of approximately $182 million dollars. So far 662,000 tons have suffered loss of performance in different crops in…
Drought causes huge losses in several regions
ANF reports in El Deber: Drought causes huge losses in several regions In the country, 132,000 families suffer the consequences of the lack of liquid. Rodent invasion, death of animals, thousands of hectares of grassland burned, lack of water for human and animal consumption and irrigation; affected agricultural and livestock production; environmental pollution and health…
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