Potosi silver, wealth that was taken out and never came back!

Today is Potosi’s anniversary, celebrating 203 years of freedom, and I saw no better way to commemorate my beloved city but to share an interesting article that will be housed in Bolivia 101: The Basics. Juan Jose Toro Montoya writes in Los Tiempos: One coin 1622. The galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha departed from Callao,…

Can Bolivia oppose to biotechnology?

Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Biotechnology: can we oppose to it? According to the FAO more than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. If this happens with seven billion inhabitants, how would we feed more than nine billion mouths by 2050? Something difficult to achieve with the climate change, the scarcity…

The so-called 2013 “black October” was merely a coup d’etat!!

Roberto Navia reports for El Deber: INTERVIEW Alexandra Sánchez de Lozada: “There are confessions of Evo and Alvaro on the coup d’etat of October 2003” Daughter of former President Gonzalo Sánchez De Lozada Alexandra Sánchez de Lozada, the daughter of the former President, spoke with EL DEBER from the United States on the events of…