Pagina Siete reports today about dengue, please take precautions: [The graph shows in orange and red the frequency of cases reported.] Residents of 20 municipalities close to the road that links La Paz with Cochabamba and Santa Cruz are the most affected by dengue. They consider that the vector is incubated in the river and tributaries…
Bolivia’s breakthrough on traditional medicine
El Deber posted this news on its website, yesterday afternoon (picture below obtained from the internet): A “Hepato-biliary syrup”, made with Andean plant extract, became the first drug registered as legal by the Bolivian Ministry of Health which, as explained this Wednesday, the authorization to go ahead was made in order to rescue traditional medicine….
Bolivian Iskanwaya is as important and beautiful as Machu Picchu!!
Pagina Siete, Anahi Cazas writes today about Iskanwaya: The complex of Iskanwaya is going to become a Cultural heritage of Bolivia, a nomination that will help its conservation, renovation and promotion. Last Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted the law on Declaration of Iskanwaya as Monumental and Archaeological National Heritage; that will serve to…
Bolivian lowlands environment in peril
This cartoon appeared in El Dia, December 19, 2011. It says: “Happiness: Is the forest to destroy and plant single crops” and you see in the right side, an illegal coca grower planting the source for cocaine, crime and drug addiction. On the left side you have a private agriculturalists planting a single crop, could…
Dengue kills 53 people in Bolivia during 2011
Pat at 19:56 tonight reported that Cedes Santa Cruz will probably call an orange alert as dengue is increasing dangerously. El Deber reported today about 53 people dying to dengue this year: “Santa Cruz have had around 32 dead and 16 Beni”, reported the Minister of Health, Nila Heredia, after a coordination meeting with sector…
Increased arbitrage as a signal of…?
Pagina Siete reports about the increased number of request for arbitrage in Bolivia: According to the center of conciliation and arbitration of Cainco (CCAC), the requests for arbitration and conciliation between parties in conflict have increased in recent years. The Executive Director of that institution, Claudia Paccieri, states that “more and more are the cases…
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