Bolivia suffers ash fallout from Peru volcanic eruption

Reuters reports for News First: REUTERS: Bolivia was feeling the fallout from a volcanic eruption in neighboring Peru on Saturday (July 20) with ash clouds darkening skies and dust blowing about the streets of cities in the eastern regions of this Andean country. One woman said that the dust smelled of sulfur and burned the…

Princess Mako attends anniversary ceremony in Bolivia

Japan Times reports; SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA – Princess Mako on Wednesday attended a commemoration in Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia, to mark the 120th anniversary of the arrival of Japanese immigrants to the South American country. “I express my sincere respect for Japanese immigrants and their descendants who have won trust in Bolivian society and become a…

Bolivia declares emergency plan to end gender killings

VOA for Citizen Digital: Bolivia, which has one of South America’s highest rates of women being killed because of their gender, has declared femicide a national priority and will step up efforts to tackle growing violence, a top government rights official said on Tuesday. Since January authorities have recorded 73 femicides – the killing of…

Indebtedness of the country during bonanza

Luis Antezana writes in El Diario, cartoon showing evo’s wastefulness is from Pagina Siete: The considerable economic income that favored and disposed the Bolivian Plurinational State during the thirteen recent years and that were administered by the governing party, the MAS, led by President Evo Morales Ayma, reached an astonishing 45.5 billion dollars, according to…

Chacaltaya contributed to man’s trip to the moon

ANF reports in Opinion: A space observatory from that mountain would have made Bolivia participate in the Apollo 11 mission, according to scientific articles and the director of the planetarium. The observations of “clouds of dust” of the lunar orbit that were made from the Chacaltaya mountain were part of the preliminary studies of space…