Laura Millan Lombrana, Jonathan Gilbert, and Sabrina Valle report for Bloomberg: South America’s only successful populist government has triumphed largely thanks to the natural gas it exports to its neighbors. But that may soon be changing. Contracts with Bolivia’s biggest customers — Brazil and Argentina — are in the process of being renegotiated at a time when…
After failures to attract investments, what?
An Editorial from El Diario: The government, with a view to obtaining investments, on both the part of United States, England, Germany and Canada, organized meetings with businessmen and capitalists in each capital of those countries and tried to encourage them and give them assurances so that they invest financial capital, technology and human capital…
Pepino the Cucumber comes back to life as Bolivia kicks off carnival – 2019
Euro News reports [to watch the video, please use the bottom link]: Trumpets blare as people walk solemnly alongside a golden casket through the streets of South America’s highest capital, La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday (February 3), four weeks before carnival begins. Representing the spirit of carnival, the clownlike figure of Pepino, or cucumber in…
February 2019: If traveling by road in Bolivia, beware of this …
Pagina Siete reports: ABC reports eight closed sections in the country The Bolivian Road Administration (ABC) reported over the weekend that eight road stretches were closed to traffic due to landslides and floods. “The first section is Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey, which at first has suffered several landslides at the height of what is Choro Alto, Choro…
Bolivian Mudslide Sweeps Cars Off Highway
The Weather Channel reports: Intense rain caused a mudslide Saturday [02/02/2019] in Bolivia that swept a half dozen cars off a highway and injured several people, officials said. The mudslide happened about 7:50 a.m. local time at a site called Puente Armas on a mountainous highway that runs between the Bolivian capital, La Paz, and…
US senators urge Evo not to be re-elected
EFE/Washington reports via Pagina Siete: “It is important that all parties respect the Constitution of Bolivia,” said Senator Ted Cruz. A bipartisan group of senators from the United States yesterday [02/02/2019] presented a legislative resolution calling on Bolivian President Evo Morales to respect the limits of presidential terms and not run for the presidential elections…
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