Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Monoculture or ‘mono-speech’? Some people dare to make negative judgments against the agricultural sector and are given the luxury of say – with an angelic halo – about things that never were and who do not understand. Not risking their fortune, not sweating a single drop, not planting anything,…
Glaciation in Bolivia
Bernardo Ellefsen writes in Los Tiempos: Glaciation in Bolivia In a previous article I stated briefly how glacial eras will behave and promised that I would give local examples. Glacial eras would be produced by the increase in precipitation, and areas in snow by the formation of layers of snow compacted into ice that would…
Disappointing behavior of Santa Cruz “leaders”…
Over the last eight years, Santa Cruz remained as the oasis, the hope that the ruling ochlocracy was going to be restrained… it was with great disappointment that the cruceño leadership surrendered to the coca-grower and populist political party… The following excerpts and links for full articles in Spanish, describe the sentiment of those Bolivians…
Current Bolivian pluri-multi-State is not to be trusted…
ANSA reports from Sao Paulo for Pagina Siete: Brazil SABOIA said that Bolivia “is the far West” The diplomat Eduardo Saboia, who helped the illegal leak of Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto of the Embassy of Brazil in La Paz, said yesterday that Bolivia for Brazilian entrepreneurs is the “far West” and the more difficult of…
Lets remember who we were and what we are now in beautiful Santa Cruz!
In this special day, I thought of nothing better for my homage to Santa Cruz, but to show Ovidio Roca’s wonderful piece, he writes in HoyBolivia.com: In September, the silver mirage We are children of Asuncion [the Spanish departed from Asuncion, Paraguay enroute to found this city], mother of cities, who we got away and then…
A corrupt person or a corrupt structure in today’s Bolivia?
Renzo Abruzzese writes in El Deber: A delinquent syndrome We were accustomed to live with corruption of public officials, but until recently it was relatively easy to distinguish between a corrupt official and a corrupt structure. When a “deal” was discovered, the image of the Government was affected as a whole, no doubt but it…
