AP reports for CBS News: 4 dead, 3 vendors hurt after plane hits market in Bolivia LA PAZ, Bolivia — Police in Bolivia say a small plane crashed into a market in a town in the country’s north, killing all four people in the aircraft and injuring three vendors on the ground. The Cessna 206…
Forum proposes five suggestions for Bolivian industrial development
El Diario reports: Lack of public policies Forum proposes five suggestions for industrial development • Recommended to improve productivity levels of manufacturing to reverse technological backwardness • Experts analyzed conditions for the integral development of the sector At the end of the Forum “The main engine of economic growth. Industrial productivity. Current situation and outlook in…
In wake of WHO report, Bolivia touts llama as healthy alternative to beef
FP – JIJI reports for The Japan Times: In wake of WHO report, Bolivia touts llama as healthy alternative to beef AFP-JIJI TURCO, BOLIVIA – Danish chef Kamilla Seidler is carefully preparing steak tartare at Gustu, an upscale restaurant in the Bolivian capital of La Paz. But instead of the usual beef, she is making…
Bear left for dead gets new home in Bolivian refuge
CNN reports: Bear left for dead gets new home in Bolivian refuge By Marilia Brocchetto (CNN)A spectacled bear who had been brutally beaten has been given a second chance at life by Bolivian environmental authorities. [to watch the video, use the link at the bottom, thank you] The bear will soon be on his way…
A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol
El Diario reports: A hundred years’ research of the Puerta del Sol A collection of national and foreign researchers made by Julio Cesar Velasquez, former Director of the National Museum of Archaeology, was reflected in the text entitled “Enigmatic Puerta del Sol, in a colossus and mysterious Tiwanaku,” dating back to 1890, date on which…
History 101: Potosi and the coins
Juan Jose Toro writes in El Deber: Potosi and the coins Potosi is known to habe been one of the most important cities of the Colony with its Cerro Rico [rich mountain]. True but insufficient. To understand what was Potosi, would have to say it was, in its time, the sum of London and New…
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