Los Tiempos reports about a serious and sensitive issue: The draft of the Census ballot conducted by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) is included in the question “To what nation do you belong?”, but excludes the category “mestizo” within the 36 Nations as a possible answer. Next to it, the issues of housing and limits…
EXPOFOREST 2012 – March 21 – 24
From http://www.hoybolivia.com: The 10th international fair of the forest, wood & technology “EXPOFOREST 2012”, to be held in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, from 21 to 24 March 2012, the largest exhibition of forest industry of wood, furniture, biodiversity, research, technology, promotion of products of the forest, Bolivia and sustainable development projects. Activities of EXPOFOREST…
Bolivian worker’s demands – March 2012
El Deber reports: The National Executive Committee of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB – main worker’s union in Bolivia), has to disseminate within 20 days, the resolutions of the last expanded national meeting, where a national minimum wage of Bs 8,300 [Bs6.96 per dollar] as the basis for wage negotiations with the Government. On the…
Bolivian bird species endangered, learn who they are and DO something!!
Armonia Foundation [a proud Bolivian NGO] has released an important book and Gemma Candela reports for La Razon: The masked tororí (Hylopezus auricularis) shakes its wings in the Bolivian Amazon. He lives between the Madre de Dios and Beni rivers. There are only between 300 and 500 survivors of this bird of 14 centimeters long, the majority concentrated…
Beautiful jewelry from Santa Cruz
It was with great surprise that I found this jewelry store: Andrea. It has great designs and what is more important has an interesting website in English, so anyone of you out there could order fine Bolivian jewelry. The site is not updated as they do have a nice earrings and pendant with the Patuju,…
TIME reports: Bolivian Coca Farmers Switch to Coffee Beans
This is from TIME, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky reporting: For millennia, farmers in Bolivia’s breathtaking Yungas Valley terraced their steep mountainsides for coca. They grew just enough of the leaf, which is sacred to the indigenous peoples of South America’s Andes region, to make tea and chew to combat high-altitude exhaustion. That changed in the 20th century,…
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