Some 150 disabled people taking part in a 234-mile trek to La Paz, arrived in the rural Andean town of Caracollo as they step up pressure on the Bolivian government in a bid for an increase in their state benefits to combat the poverty that is facing the country’s disabled community. Setting off in wheelchairs…
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Bolivia set to become latest member of the nuclear club: WTH!?
From the Chartered Institute of Building, GCR reports: Bolivia set to become latest member of the nuclear club 5 April 2016 | By David Rogers The government of Bolivia has concluded a $300m deal with Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear engineer, to build a research complex that will lay the technical basis for the country’s future…
Bolivia’s oil, gas and mining under the spotlight in Thomson Reuters Foundation programme
Bolivia’s oil, gas and mining under the spotlight in Thomson Reuters Foundation programme by Derek Thorne Four investigations by Bolivian journalists have shed new light on the country’s extractives sector – looking at issues including unregulated gold mining and the environmental impact of oil wells in the rainforest. The stories were produced as part of…
Body of Slain Woman Found Buried in Bolivian Prison Cell
Associated Press reports for ABC News: Body of Slain Woman Found Buried in Bolivian Prison Cell An inmate apparently killed his ex-wife and buried her beneath his cell in Bolivia’s largest prison — with nobody taking notice for nearly a year, officials said Thursday. Chief prosecutor Gomer Padilla told The Associated Press that the body…
Sinosteel expected to break ground on Bolivian sheet metal plant in August
Shanghai Daily reports: Sinosteel expected to break ground on Bolivian sheet metal plant in August LA PAZ, April 4 (Xinhua) — China’s Sinosteel is expected to break ground in August on a sheet metal plant in Bolivia’s east Santa Cruz department, Bolivian Mining and Metallurgy Minister Cesar Navarro said Monday. [I picked an old cartoon…
Bolivian women mining for a living and for respect
Al Jazeera reports: Bolivian women mining for a living and for respect Despite local superstition that female presence brings bad luck, women eke out a living inside dangerous Bolivian mines. by Jurriaan van Eerten Llallagua, Bolivia – It started out of necessity 15 years ago. Dolly Quillka Bautista’s husband had slipped into a coma after…
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