Bolivian fruit export potential!

Ismael Luna Acevedo reports for El Dia: IBL: first lyophilized plant of fruits A striking company, specialized in the industrialization of national fruits, is exporting to European countries. Entrepreneurship pushes forward that urban population eat fruits with nutritional value. The consumption of fruit in the country is low, says an empirical observation. The truth is…

Bolivian debt is over four billion dollars and rising…

I just read in FB that current Bolivian president was donating $1MM to Argentina, for a Juana Azurduy de Padilla statue (not that is wrong to honor her legacy but the way she and other Bolivian heroes get manipulated by current government, who is in electoral campaign, after the votes of the Bolivians residing in…

Potosi: Complete Arzans’ Chronicles are for sale, first time ever!!

Anahi Cazas reports for Pagina Siete: The three volumes of the monumental work sold at Bs900 Complete Arzans’ Chronicles are for sale for the first time INITIATIVE. The BCB [Bolivia’s Central Bank] and Plural Foundation launched a facsimile edition of the monumental work. “… Nowhere in the world is so rich hill found … none…

Bolivia will protect its writers!!

A good piece of news, our writers will be protected and reading encouraged! From El Deber: Deputies approved the book draft law The [Lower] Chamber [of the National Assembly, former Congress] decided to support unanimously. The law that will be enacted in April, expected on the 23rd, day of the book. The Chamber of Deputies…

12 year-old kid wins national Story contest!!

There is great future for Antonio Javier Chavez, congrats and welcome to The Hall of Bolivian Fame!! From HoyBolivia.com: 12 years old kid wins national Story Contest Antonio Javier Chávez won first place in a literary contest in which 131 authors participated, many of them consecrated authors and that doubled or tripled his age. The…