The following link from Los Tiempos newspaper reports (4/25/11) that the Prosecutor (attorney) in charge of the trial against the alleged “terrorism” and “separatism” has resigned. Remember the old post ” Time to reflect, time to pray” posted on April 19, 2011, the judge gave this prosecutor five days to clean up the documents and evidence. Soza…
Productive Santa Cruz
Cuevo and San Javier are towns in Santa Cruz department. They have great cheese production. Over the weekend they held events to show their wonderful produce. Along with these two towns, Comarapa and Vallegrande held also cattle and mill fairs. So tourists could go and had a taste of their delicious products.
Gas, strikes and names… in short
Brazil, Chile and Argentina are above Bolivia in terms of proven “retrievable” reserves of natural gas, an energy US agency reports. Also states that since there are too many regions worldwide with natural gas, that the other type of expected reserves are no longer interesting to track down. So less traceable means fewer opportunities to…
Clippings…
This Sunday, three articles are good in terms of information and analysis provided about recent events. The first one is from a former hydrocarbon minister from current government. A bit cynical but interesting nevertheless… ironices the agreements recently signed with Venezuela. http://www.laprensa.com.bo/noticias/24-4-2011/noticias/24-04-2011_15256.php This second talks about Cuba and how their leaders are setting up their “face…
Reengineering police. Use of our reserves
There is ongoing debate over pros and cons of autonomy. For the last five years, autonomy in Bolivia is synonym of trouble, separatism, solution, opportunity, sedition, way of life and many more. It has become a problem on top of poverty, drugs, pollution and still there is no light seen, the tunnel is tortuous. This…
Good news for Bolivia!!
Finally a piece of good news for Bolivia! The company that operates a larger portion of El Mutun mine (iron mineral, border Santa Cruz with Brazil), Jindal Steel & Power reported the first shipment of 260 thousand metric tons of iron concentrates to China. For centuries Bolivia was known as a highland mining country who…
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