El Diario reports: First bimonthly 2015: Sales drop 27% in value and 6% by volume Bolivian exports to February 2015 show a general reduction in values and volumes exported. Likewise the average export prices have been continuously deteriorating, explained by less favorable external economic conditions. In the opinion of the Chamber of Exporters of Santa…
Conceptionists, entrusted to produce hosts in La Paz
Daniel Hinojosa reports for Pagina Siete: Conceptionists, entrusted to produce hosts in La Paz Technology and tradition come together to enable around 60,000 hosts each month, that are distributed to major churches, parishes and chapels. Making the round, white, thin and delicate hosts, representing the body of Christ in the Eucharist, is a work that…
10 sentences of Bolivian rejoinder against Chile – Las 10 frases de la dúplica boliviana contra Chile
Due to the relevance of this issue, I am placing right after the english translation, point by point, the Spanish portion in italics, of the full news from El Deber: 10 sentences of Bolivian rejoinder against Chile – Las 10 frases de la dúplica boliviana contra Chile The national legal team argued solidly that Bolivia…
What is needed in Bolivia? Coca crops or textiles…?
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Coca crops or textiles When the government announced the dismissal of workers of the National Textile Corporation (Enatex), it should be disclosed for reasons of national accounting and awareness, the number of jobs that illegal coca has created in the country. Because, as everyone knows, the company that now…
Bolivian History 101: Marshal Andres de Santa Cruz
Jose Alberto Diez de Medina writes in El Diario: Marshal Andres de Santa Cruz One of the most representative of the liberation wars in Latin America figures, is the Gral. Andrew de Santa Cruz and Calahumana, son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Jose and Santa Cruz Villavicencio and daughter of the Chief of Huarina, Juana…
Bolivian press under persecution by current central government! WTH!?
ANP reports in El Dia: Freedom of the press Demand cessation of persecution The National Press Association of Bolivia expressed a claim for the cessation of tax persecution of independent media faced difficult financial situation resulting from the audit processes. On the World Day of Press Freedom, the ANP alert the Bolivian media are the…
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