Gabriel Diez reports for Pagina Siete, excerpts follow: THEIR PRESENCE ON THE WEB IS ON AVERAGE OVER 10 YEARS Nine virtual business stand out in the Bolivian web The enterprises focus to the areas of real estate, service guides, specialized information and electronic commerce without “intermediaries”. Casasmap.com born 2009 as a university project and today,…
Had to pass 30 years to watch, listen Jaime Laredo, welcome back home!
El Deber reports: MUSICIAN Jaime Laredo was reunited with the Bolivian public It took over 30 years for the Bolivian violinist Jaime Laredo, to again be performing in a scenario of the country and so the concert he gave on Wednesday night [08/06/2014] at the Teatro Municipal Alberto Saavedra, La Paz, was considered a historic…
To those who doubt about THE American Dream … ask Marcelo Claure!
Here is an undeniable truth: the USA is the land of opportunities! Bolivian entrepreneur appeared on the front page of The Wall Street Journal! The article follows: BUSINESS Sprint Goes Off Beaten Track for New CEO Marcelo Claure New Boss Is an Entrepreneur Who Started and Sold Businesses By RYAN KNUTSON and THOMAS GRYTA CONNECT…
The thin line between CSR or just mitigation/remediation of environmental and social impact
The following article prompted an analysis of what really is Corporate Social Responsibility [Responsabilidad Social Empresarial – RSE] vis-a-vis development work need to restore the social/environmental conditions of a given site as a result of economic activities, in this case under the hydrocarbon industry. People in Bolivia tend to use the wording RSE to “demonstrate”…
Inauguration of the Mint House of Potosí
Today is a great day, is the day where the Republic of Bolivia won its independence! 189 years of hard struggle but it is OUR country, OUR REPUBLIC! Bolivia is a country where the majority of the around ten million people are of mestizo majority, of western civilization culture and mostly Christian society. With most…
Bolivian golden bat revealed as ‘new species’
Erbol reports about a golden bat, found in Bolivia! If you want to read about this wonder in Spanish, please use this link: http://www.erbol.com.bo/noticia/ciencia_y_tecnologia/04082014/descubren_en_bolivia_un_murcielago_de_color_dorado This article is in English, from BBC: Bolivian golden bat revealed as ‘new species’ By Michelle Warwicker BBC Nature A golden bat from Bolivia has been described as a new species by…
