From the Daily Beast: My Night at Bolivia’s Illegal Cocaine Bar In La Paz, our correspondent finds a legendary basement dive, where the house specialty is not a cocktail, but an illicit tray of the white stuff. It’s a well-known secret in La Paz, Bolivia, that it has an illegal underground cocaine bar, noted as…
Our Latino Heritage: Why Chicago Became Home to Many Bolivian Doctors
NBC News Latino reports: Our Latino Heritage: Why Chicago Became Home to Many Bolivian Doctors by RALEIGH CAVERO CHICAGO, Ill. — Interviewing Bolivian doctors in Chicago is like interviewing members of a huge family. It’s remarkable not only because they’re so close, but because they’re so numerous: The Windy City has the largest concentration of…
Bolivia Base Metals Mining Market, 2020 – Research and Markets
CBS BusinessWire reports: Bolivia Base Metals Mining Market, 2020 – Research and Markets Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Base Metals Mining in Bolivia to 2020” report to their offering. The ‘Base Metals Mining in Bolivia to 2020’ report comprehensively covers Bolivian reserves of base metals (zinc and lead), reserves by country,…
UN Reports Small Decrease in Bolivia Coca Cultivation … not damn enough!
InSight Crime reports: UN Reports Small Decrease in Bolivia Coca Cultivation Written by Deborah Bonello Coca cultivation in Bolivia has reached its lowest levels since United Nations monitoring began in 2003, moving the country closer to policy makers’ de facto cap on coca crops. But as transnational drug trafficking intensifies, the world’s third-largest coca producer…
Abandoned steam train graveyard in Bolivia, in pictures
From The Telegraph: Abandoned steam train graveyard in Bolivia, in pictures In the heart of southern Bolivia lies a mysterious train graveyard, where the skeletons of British steam locomotives and carriages rust away on the edge of the world’s largest salt flats. The graveyard contains over 100 steam locomotives and rail cars which been dumped…
Bolivian ochlocracy 101: evo delivers his best…
A cartoon from Pagina Siete: It is disgusting to see how the coca grower caudillo had wasted over $150 billion dollars during the years of his presidency. Now that the international prices of our commodity exports have fallen, the demagogue populist has no better option than to continue to squeeze those of us who relentlessly…
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