Harriet Mallinson reports for MailOnLine and AFP: Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city Fluorescent-coloured walls tower for up to seven stories at an altitude of 13,000ft in the city of El Alto Called ‘cholets’ by the locals they were built by…
Scientists to transport ice from Bolivian melting glacier to Antarctica, preserve its ‘memory’
EFE reports via Fox News: Scientists to transport ice from Bolivian melting glacier to Antarctica, preserve its ‘memory’ An international team of scientists will transport ice from the glacier on Bolivia’s Mt. Illimani, the country’s second-highest peak, to Antarctica with the aim of preserving its climatological “memory” – that is, the valuable information about the…
US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish
Sabrina Martin reports for PanAm Post: US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish Once again Bolivia and Venezuela, along with Burma, are the countries where there is a “demonstrable failure” in their obligations to fight drug trafficking. [this is a no-brainer considering the coca grower caudillo from the region has become president, after…
Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model … WTH!?
Hoybolivia.com reports: Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model Santa Cruz.- In connection with President Evo Morales’s trip to Venezuela to commemorate the four years since Hugo Chávez’s death, congressman of the Democrat political party, Luis Felipe Dorado said that the president “continues to spend without permission Bolivian resources for his travels of private…
Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
Georgina Jiménez, writes for IC Magazine via Truth Out A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia Over the past 10 years, the area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from three million hectares in 2007[1] to more than thirty one million[2]. Precisely 28.84% of the surface of Bolivia…
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