Anahi Cazas reports for Pagina Siete: For the first time, 300 researchers from countries of America, Asia, Oceania, Europe and Africa will gather from June 25 -29 in La Paz in an Archaeology and Rock Art Congress. The meeting is organized as part of the activities of the celebration of the 25 years of the…
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Bolivian biologist Erika Cuellar receives an award! [updated 5/18/13]
For UPDATED accomplishments, PLS click here. There are reasons to be proud!! This time one of our own, won an international prize for her work with the guanaco, see this link for more pictures, [For a Spanish news update, Nov/14/12 from Pagina Siete, click here] El Deber reports: London Agencies The Bolivian biologist Erika Cuellar was…
Bolivian Macroeconomics 101: Foreign debt continues to rise and fewer investments arrive
Despite disdaining remarks on economic reality and ‘appearance’ of success, current government’s failures are becoming increasingly harder to hide. Yandira Toledo writes for El Dia: The debt continues rising, offsetting the investment in the country. According to the report in the monthly State of the external debt of the Central Bank of Bolivia from January 1…
Reflecting on our imposed? political style with some humor…
April was a hectic month and this one appears to be following that trend… here a few cartoons that illustrate our ordeal: This is from Los Tiempos, April 24, 2012: Press news: “A radio that reported about the 9th march was attacked” and “start blockade against the protest-walk” dog: “what kind of fool are we…
An unusual and most likely useless work-free day in Bolivia, Monday April 30, 2012
I remember a Vietnamese friend back in Rotterdam who told me he and his wife worked for the government from Monday thru Saturday, on Sundays they work for their only child, to save money for his education. Here current government has declared today a holiday, among some of the ‘excuses’ was to boost the tourism……
Bolivian humor or sad reality?
In Bolivia we use cartoon humor to portray our failures and frustrations, let’s see some: This is from El Diario, March 17, 2012. It shows the increasing levels of crime and certainly those wonderful tourists who choose our country, are almost defenseless. The police section who is responsible for tourism protection has very little resources,…
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