El Diario reports: “Production tests” continue Production costs will decide profitability of gas extraction, according to analyst Mauricio Medinaceli Several experts and opposition leaders questioned the insufficient information offered by the Government on the gas that will produce the Boyuy X2 well in Tarija, for which they demand transparency to know if the drilling of…
Bolivian coca/cocaine 101 … under evo: The failed Bolivian ‘model’
Susana Seleme writes in Eju.tv: The failed Bolivian ‘model’ “The world is a round mass that ferments. Ferments through oil … Ferments through gases. Ferment through the web. But there is an ingredient that is faster than the others and everyone wants. And it’s the coca. That plant that crosses the Atlantic like an elastic…
Bolivia loses 11% of GDP due to maritime confinement
El Diario reports: Anual average Bolivian exporters must face a cost 33.2% higher than the regional average TRANSPORTATION EXPLAINS MAJOR LOSSES INCURRED BY BOLIVIA FOR ITS CENTENARY LANDLOCKED. A work done by economist Rodrigo Burgoa found that the maritime enclosure that Bolivia suffers since the invasion of its coast in February 1879 has a negative…
7 thousand hectares in Bolivia affected by adverse weather events
Fresh Plaza reports, picture from Los Tiempos: 300 hectares of banana have been lost The department’s tropical region has been affected by heavy rains and the southern cone by droughts. According to reports, both natural phenomena have damaged almost 10 thousand hectares of cultivation: 7 thousand hectares of fruit trees have been affected in Chapare,…
Every year on ‘Día Del Mar,’ Bolivia celebrates the coastline they lost
Chantelle Bacigalupo reports for PRI’S The World: Local authorities take part in the events commemorating the “Día del Mar,” or “Day of the Sea,” which refers to the day on which Bolivia lost its access to the sea to Chile during the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific, in La Paz, Bolivia, March 23, 2017. The…
Campos de Solana wins three golds in French contest
Pagina Siete reports: Three wines from the winery were awarded in the Vinalies contest in France. They competed with more than a thousand samples from the orb. The distinguished wines of Campos de Solana. Photo: Campos de Solana The wines Esther Ortiz, Tannat Único and Trivarietal de Campos de Solana [Solarium Fields] were awarded, each…
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