A great Editorial from El Diario: While the country enjoyed significant income between 2007 and 2014, it emerged in the population that finally new sources of employment could be created; but the little that was done was in public entities and mining and cooperative organizations; but the private activity did not enjoy advances in its…
The last battle for Bolivia
Luis Gonzalez reports for Pagina Siete: REVIEW The author writes about Álvaro Moscoso’s research work on the government of Pedro Blanco. He points out that it is a book that has a clear and direct prose, and a very careful edition. A revisionist study of official history, tending to discuss commonly accepted criteria and to…
La Paz, Bolivia’s Emerging Wine Destination
Lauren Mowery reports for Winemag.com: From unique restaurants and Bolivian wine to the riveting Andes, La Paz has everything you need for a trip of a lifetime. A Bolivian winemaker describes La Paz as “chaos, color and kitsch.” Indeed, the city bursts with dozens of ethnic groups that intersect over food, culture and dress. It’s the world’s…
Urus offer crafts to support families
El Diario reports: Creative works The frost, the overflow of the Lauca River and the evaporation of Lake Poopó left the inhabitants of the arid land without food Urus crafts women expose and sell their works of art until today in the artist’s house. The Urus de Chipaya, Llapallapani and Tinta…
As Bolivia Leader Sets Himself Up for 4th Term, China’s Influence Grows [evo gave away our natural resources, WTF?!]
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Not only the ochlocrat/autocrat evo has surrendered our natural resources to China, but has allowed them to engage in labor mistreatment, endangering our wildlife, polluting and damaging practices that the Chinese are so accustomed to do, hence their “competitiveness” for its products. evo has also complied with China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba…
Neglect, rain threatening ‘Sistine Chapel of the Andes’
Carlos Valdez, AP reports for Bradenton Herald: CURAHUARA DE CARANGAS, BOLIVIA – A buttress supporting an adobe wall has collapsed and grass overgrows the patio of the four-century-old church whose dazzling murals depicting biblical scenes and remote location high atop a Bolivian plateau have earned it the nickname the “Sistine Chapel of the Andes.” In this…
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