I welcome Jose Huallpa and Miguel Martinez to The Hall of Bolivian Fame, Los Tiempos reports: Bolivians earn bronze medals on the modalities of “making clothing” and “electrical installations” in the WorldSkills Americas competition that recognizes the best technicians and technologists in formation of the Americas Two medals for Bolivia in the WorldSkills Americas Bolivians,…
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Bolivian Gabriela Flores (Kirah Design) wins a Cartier award!!!
This is great and proud news for this Sunday! After the violence in Challapata, San German and stupid and useless remarks from current president to the US, this is certainly what we need! Pagina Siete reports: Gabriela Flores received a statuette and $20,000 A Bolivian won the Cartier Award between thousand entrepreneurs INITIATIVE she founded…
Serious environmental damage in Pilcomayo river basin
El Dia flags a serious environmental damage that not only affects indigenous habitants close to the Pilcomayo basin but also endangers our wildlife and economy. This is one issue that current government needs to tackle fast; get their facts straight, and even more if it is a “binational project” between Argentina and Paraguay; it is…
Bolivian Economics 101:The economic agenda, in its ‘infancy’
This is an interesting and enlightening article made by Juan Carlos Salinas Cortez for El Deber: Already five months passed since at the Social and Economic Summit in Cochabamba and promoted by the Government to ‘set the ground rules’ for the elaboration of economic and productive agenda with the private sector. However, so far the…
Bolivian biologist Erika Cuellar receives an award! [updated 5/18/13]
For UPDATED accomplishments, PLS click here. There are reasons to be proud!! This time one of our own, won an international prize for her work with the guanaco, see this link for more pictures, [For a Spanish news update, Nov/14/12 from Pagina Siete, click here] El Deber reports: London Agencies The Bolivian biologist Erika Cuellar was…
Margarita and Huacaya oil fields unveiled, no need for further conflict between Chuquisaca and Tarija
Hilton Heredia reports for El Deber about the connectivity between two oil fields and fortunately there is no need to continue with the conflict between brethren departments: Official. The American firm Gaffney Cline & Associates last night unveiled that a (H1b) reservoir of the Margarita field in Tarija (the largest gas deposit) field has connectivity with…
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