Karen Hudson-Edwards reports for Science: Alicia Quispe is preparing to go to work in the adobe hut she shares with her mother, Rosa, and sister, Evelyn. The hut, located on the outskirts of the Bolivian town of Potosí, has no windows, running water, or electricity. As she walks to the job site, she carries stones…
First dome lodge opens on Bolivia’s salt flats
The National, Lifestyle reports: Travellers to the South American country can sleep under the stars on top of the salt flats at the base of a volcano Bucket list travellers take note, there’s a new destination you might want to add to your travel list as the first dome lodge in the Bolivian Altiplano has…
The Electoral Tribunal causes distrust
Editorial from El Diario, graph below from an earlier post: In the crisis of the political-governmental system that the country is going through, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and all the departmental apparatus of its dependence receive special notoriety, a crisis that is not the only one and is reflected in the Bolivian Police, in…
Rains and snow affect three regions of the country
El Diario reports: The intense rains in several regions of the country caused the cutting of roads on departmental roads between Santa Cruz and Cochabamba. In the mountain range of the Tunari it snowed. TRAFFIC COVERAGE IN THE SAN JOAQUÍN ARROYO SECTOR OF LA PAZ – UNDUAVI SECTION DUE TO ROAD MATERIAL MUD SLIDE. Three…
evo will not have 2/3 at the Congress due to corruption and drug trafficking
El Diario reports, pertaining excerpts follow: MAS insists on totalitarianism Núñez: Morales will not have 2/3 due to corruption and drug trafficking For the President – candidate and leader of the cocalero, winning the general elections is not a problem, now the objective is to triumph with more than two thirds to dominate all the…
World Report 2019 – Human Rights Watch: Bolivia under peril
Human Rights Watch 2019 report: People from different departments of Bolivia march towards La Paz against the nomination of Bolivian President Evo Morales as candidate for reelection for the October 2019 national elections, in Villa Remedios, Bolivia, on December 5, 2018. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) authorized the nomination of Evo Morales for a fourth…
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