Mac Margolis reports for Bloomberg View: Bolivia’s Morales Goes Down an Ugly Road A superhighway linking the Andes with the Amazon may hurt indigenous groups and help coca growers. President Evo Morales is a Bolivarian success story. While Latin America’s marquee populist brand has lost its charm in much of the region, Bolivia’s caudillo soldiers…
Pineapple sales generate more than 20 million dollars in Bolivia
Fresh Plaza reports: Pineapple sales generate more than 20 million dollars in Bolivia Bolivia has earned more than 20 million dollars so far this year from sales of pineapple production, stated the director of the National Fund for Integral Development, Erlan Oropeza. That figure comes from the marketing of this product in the national market,…
Collective claims six reasons to reject the TIPNIS road
Lorena Rojas reports for Pagina Siete: Collective claims six reasons to reject the TIPNIS road They consider that the Government is trying to implement an unviable development model that will affect the indigenous peoples who live in the park. The civic platform A New Opportunity raised at least six reasons, “of national importance and implication”,…
Amalia Pando: “Mr. Edgar Apaza this time radio schedule is not yours is mine”
Pagina Siete reports: Amalia Pando: “Mr. Edgar Apaza this time radio schedule is not yours is mine” The journalist questioned the decision of the president of the Departmental Assembly to pretend to have a program in the same schedule of Cabildeo [Lobby]. “Mr. Edgar Apaza this schedule is not yours is mine,” was the response…
Bolivia approves controversial highway in Amazon biodiversity hotspot
Dan Collyns reports for The Guardian: Bolivia approves controversial highway in Amazon biodiversity hotspot Major 190-mile road will strip national park and home to thousands of indigenous people of its protected status, making it vulnerable to deforestation. Bolivia has given the go ahead to a controversial highway which would cut through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot…
Sucre, Bolivia: Best resort for tourists with a limited budget
Paradox reports for The Mice Times of Asia : Excerpts pertaining Sucre, Bolivia follow: Best resorts for tourists with a limited budget. Everyone wants to earn more. Think about the life they could live if I only earned more. But the truth is, the world is full of places where you can live on very…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 