Despite the diplomatic impasse with Argentina, not so long ago when an Interpol criminal got VIP treatment in Bolivia, current government continues to push for a friendship with a country which is in the black list of most western democracies. HoyBolivia.com reports that Iranian congressmen will be visiting very shortly [this week?] the Bolivian Assembly; an…
Golden anniversary for USAID
This cartoon appeared in La Razon on November 15, 2011. Where you see two sides of current political party in government. Kudos for USAID’s golden anniversary! Fifty years helping the whole world. In case you didn’t know, USAID/Bolivia funded a great variety of infrastructure across our beautiful Bolivia: did you know about: the road La…
Blame the infiltrates… says current president
“They were the infiltrates” is Humberto Vacaflor’s article in El Deber today [inside brackets like this go some clarifications and my opinion]: President Evo Morales has just revealed the deeper truth about their government: the infiltrates are guilty of everything. This was the explanation that the Bolivians were waiting, because they could not understand how all these…
Diving world record in Titicaca accomplished!!
On November 12, I posted a news regarding the Italian initiative to dive at high altitude: https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/diving-in-the-highest-lake-of-the-world/ Today, Pagina Siete (Pablo Peralta) reports: The team dived 101 meters deep at Lake Titicaca. FACT: In one of the dives near the Isla del Sol team rescued three archaeological artifacts (two noggins and a third element), which were handed to the…
Some road blockades suspended temporarily
The trucking industry [heavy load transport association] said on Tuesday afternoon, a recess is in effect, after agreeing with the Government to install a working group to discuss the payment of taxes and fines for the legalization of undocumented trailers or ‘flat’ units. “We determined to make a recess in our pressure measurements while analyzing this…
TIPNIS jailers, an editorial from Los Tiempos
Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos, regarding TIPNIS jailers: In order to obtain first-hand information, Los Tiempos organized the trip of a reporting team (a journalist, a photographer and a driver) to confirm, or otherwise, several reports on the construction of a road within the Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS), which would be underway by the indigenous sympathizers of the political…
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