La Razon’s cartoon won the first national award: A drawing of Al – Azar (Alejandro Salazar), published on July 10 in the section Gallery of Abnormalities of the supplement: Animal Politician, won the first national award in the caricature category of the National Press Association. The image is referred to the conflict unleashed by the…
New earthquake in Cochabamba, now near Aiquile
Los Tiempos reports: An earthquake of 3.6 degrees of magnitude on the Richter scale panicked the Sunday night the population of Aiquile, distant 137 kilometers from Cochabamba, and forced a group of neighbors to spend the night in the streets of that city, fearing the collapse of their homes. According to the analyst of the…
Keynes would disapprove current Bolivian government… Friedman would have a sad a smile over Bolivian’s reality
These are the conclusions that Fundacion Milenio presented on September 2011, issue No. 23; the lead writer is Ivan Arias Duran It is an analysis of the State owned & created-under-this-government companies (full Spanish study is attached at the end of this post). This research was possible with the collection of official information from public…
Public safety: what is been done for Santa Cruz city?
This cartoon is from El Diario (11/28/11), a La Paz journal which also reflects what is happening regarding public safety in Santa Cruz and around our nation. El Mundo reports on social peace and public safety, for beautiful Santa Cruz city, summary follows (for full Spanish article, click link below; after the link, there is my…
TIPNIS and current government agreed on the regulations for the “short Law”
La Opinion offers updated information regarding the norms that will enforce the “short law” regarding the road that should not go through the TIPNIS: The Government and the indigenous people who marched against the road that attempted to cut the TIPNIS in half, approved this Sunday the regulation of the TIPNIS short law; after more…
Dengue kills three people in Cochabamba
HoyBolivia.com reports: The director of the departmental service of health (SEDES), Guido Sanchez, confirmed this Saturday the third dengue death in Cochabamba. “That person came from Ivirgarzama (Chapare) and died around noon Tuesday in the Viedma Hospital.” “We know that he was at least 10 days without medical care,” Sanchez reported. It was reported that dengue…
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