Otago Daily Times report: Laguna Colorada, created in 1973 mainly to protect flamingo and vicuna, covers around 7.5 hectares. PHOTOS: ELEANOR HUGHES Eleanor Hughes has an unforgettable experience travelling across the Bolivian Altiplano. Google Maps has directed us overland from Colombia to Uyuni, Bolivia, with no problem. When it’s announced that Pietro, a local guide,…
Rodrigo Urquiola wins the José Nogales International Short Story Award
EFE/Huelva reports for Pagina Siete: The story “Ashly”, by the Bolivian writer and journalist Rodrigo Urquiola, has won the XXV edition of the International Short Story Award José Nogales, organized by the Diputación de Huelva (Spain). The jury, composed by Juan Villa, Hipólito González and Francisco Silvera, has highlighted in this story “its high literary…
Tourism 101: Lonely Planet’s Bolivia: South America’s diverse and intriguing jewel
More than 40-thousand dancers and musicians take part in the annual Festival of the Feast of the Lord of Power through the streets of Bolivia’s capital each May. Superlative in its natural beauty, rugged, vexing, complex and slightly nerve-racking, Bolivia is one of South America’s most diverse and intriguing nations. ADVENTURE Bolivia is not for…
It is vital to rethink the economic model
A most needed Editorial from El Deber, photos from the internet: A nine-day blockade on the road to Trinidad and Brazil is just a sign of an economic model that should be reviewed as soon as possible. The soy producers (the first link in the productive chain of the so-called “gold grain”) demand that they…
Young criticizes a masista public servant for politicizing education
El Diario reports: A high school female student yesterday questioned the departmental assembly member of MAS, Fabiola Almanza [photo], for politicizing education by suggesting that everyone can be with President Evo Morales and for wanting all young people to be “masistas.” Other students rejected that official authorities campaign to support the MAS and seek to…
Bolivia: Hostility against human rights defenders
Amnesty International reports for ReliefWeb: BOLIVIA: DEFENDERS AT RISK BY ACCUSATIONS AND THREATS FROM AUTHORITIES The highest government authorities in Bolivia, including President Evo Morales and his government minister, Carlos Romero, have publicly accused and threatened human rights defenders and organizations critical of their policies, demonizing them and hampering their important work, says Amnesty International…
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