Gary Antonio Rodríguez Álvarez superb writing for El Deber: Evo says that he is not eternal… Whenever someone speaks of eternity I like to investigate, because life and death are two inseparable facets of the human being. What caught my attention was the statement of President Morales, who said: “Evo is passed, Evo is not…
Bolivia is in the last place due to lack of budgetary transparency
From ANF [Fides News Agency]: THE COUNTRY IS IN LAST PLACE DUE TO LACK OF BUDGETARY TRANSPARENCY It reached just 12 points due to lack of appropriate publications from the project’s budget and for not spreading understandable information for the population in general, the rating is on a 100 point scale. La Paz, 26 Jan…
Libera Association presents academic journal which encourages critical thinking
From PIEB, Research About Bolivia Digital Newspaper: Libera Association presents academic journal which encourages critical thinking PIEB Digital Newspaper • 02-01-2013 The Libera [Set-Free] Association presents the first issue of the academic journal “set free: the power of ideas” that impetus is given to critical thinking and aims to encourage debate about the role of…
Bolivia wins medals in the Special Olympics
Mario Perez Chavarria reports for El Deber: ATHLETES WITH DIFFERENT CONDITIONS Bolivia wins medals in the Special Olympics Featured. Santa Cruz and Cochabamba harvested five medals in South Korea; two gold and three bronze. Today they will return to the country. The Cochabambinos Carmen Rosa García and Edson Choque and from Santa Cruz Gerson Salas…
Bolivian folklore 101: Caporales dance, how it was created!
From time to time we see/read about Chile, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador folklore groups playing our music, as if it were their own. I recall been in Germany and not so long ago in Charles Square, Cambridge, MA, USA, where musical groups from other countries were playing Bolivian music as if it was originally from their…
At last, some good news for the TIPNIS
From the Facebook account of Jacqueline Patino [Patiño]: #TIPNIS good news: Finally some light! They have admitted the popular demand. Read what was decided by the Constitutional Court. The Committee of admission of the Tribunal constitutional plurinational [Plurinational Constitutional Court], resolved: 1 Revoke the resolution 59/2012 dated October 8, as registered on “folios” fs. 54-55,…
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