Bolivians sent remittances to the country for $942 million dollars

El Diario reports: January-September 2018 FAMILIES RECEIVE VALUABLE FUNDS FROM SPAIN, USA AND ARGENTINA. Bolivia received $942.6 million dollars for remittances sent, between January and September of this year, by its residents abroad, an amount that represented an increase of 0.2% over the same period of 2017, reported yesterday the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB)….

Freedom of expression of the people at risk

El Diario reports: Citizens and opponents Assemblyman describes the pretense of punishing people as worrisome. They gave substitute measures to citizen who shouted to President Morales: “Bolivia said No” The population expressed its rejection of the policies implemented by the Government. Meanwhile, the ruling party maintains that what happened in Potosí is an isolated event…

Torotoro National Park seeks to become a new “Jurassic park”

AFP reports via El Deber: The 3,500 footprints belong, according to the researchers, to eight species of prehistoric animals and would place this Bolivian region of a pleasant temperate climate A dinosaur in the Plaza de Torotoro. Photo BoliviaMia.net A row of steps of sauropods, theropods and ankylosaurs of the Cretaceous period are observed in…

Bolivian observatory collects data as glaciers melt

Carlos Valdez, Associated Press for PA Home Page: LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – The snow appears to be pristine on the Andean peaks that loom above Bolivia’s capital, but even here ash and smog reach up to a remote plateau that is home to the world’s highest atmospheric observatory. It’s an ideal site for a…