Daniel Ramos, Reuters, Successful Farming: LA PAZ, April 22 (Reuters) – Bolivia has temporarily banned exports of beef in order to guarantee supply for its domestic market and to prevent prices from rising, the government said on Thursday. “We are suspending meat exports,” Minister of Rural Development and Lands Remmy Gonzales told reporters, adding the…
Former Bolivian President Janine Anez has a kidney infection: her doctor asked to take her from prison to hospital
Freddie Dawson, Pen Media Inc: The former interim president of Bolivia, Janine Anez, was registered on March 13th while she was looking out from the Felcc Special Forces cells, in La Paz (Bolivia). EFE / Stringer A report from the private physician Janine Anez, the former transitional president of Bolivia, indicated that she suffers from “acute…
The Charm Of The Charango
The Odyssey Series, Wisconsin Public Radio [To listen to the instrument, click on the photo. To download it, use the link at the bottom]: The charango from Bolivia is thought to have originated roughly 300 years ago in Potosi, commonly designated as the “silver city.” It was crafted over time by South American Indian musicians…
The coca grower raves – El cocalero delira
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The purger should be purged The head of the MAS, Evo Morales, has announced an internal purge to get rid of the renovators of his party who are within the government of Luis Arce and of his party structures. That, according to him, is the main conclusion of the meeting to evaluate…
A deranged masismo – Un masismo desquiciado
Pagina Siete: Militias, that madness The so-called Coordinator for the Defense of Democracy, which responds to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), was launched yesterday with the mad idea of changing the Constitution to create armed militias in the country destined to replace the Armed Forces. If there were not a context of hardening of the…
Less land for the indigenous – Menos tierra para los indígenas
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Indigenous people own less land now than before The amount of land that peasants and indigenous people have is now less than what they owned before the application of the new agrarian legislation INRA, dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and prolonged in its validity by the Agrarian…
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