Reuters reports for The Telegraph: Mystery after over a tonne of dead fish wash up on shores of Bolivian lake Thousands of small sardine-like fish have been found dead in lake Allay, but no one is completely sure what caused oxygen levels in the lake to drop so dramatically. Thousands of dead fish have washed…
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Brazilian Comptroller would investigate OAS contracts in Bolivia
Los Tiempos reports: Brazilian Comptroller would investigate OAS contracts in Bolivia The head of the bloc of Democratic Unity (UD), Arturo Murillo, yesterday [03/14/2016] asked the vice president of the Court of Accounts of the Union (Controller) of the Republic of Brazil, Julio Marcelo de Oliveira, the investigation of the lucrative contracts signed by OAS,…
Collapse of Bolivian exports
An Editorial from El Diario: Collapse of Bolivian exports Only last January, exports of various domestic products fell by one third in relation to the same month last year, according to worrying statistic provided by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the crash regarding foreign sales pertains to gas, manufacturing, minerals and agricultural products. More concretely,…
Bolivia must diversify its economy and production
El Diario reports: Bolivia must diversify its economy and production • Representatives and experts from the World Bank, IDB, CAF and ECLAC, meeting at the Government Palace, recommended to the national authorities to take prudential measures in economic issues, in addition to seeking other options in the international oil crisis and to evaluate issues of…
Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia’s Rosatom
Reuters reports through Yahoo news: Bolivia agrees $300 million nuclear complex with Russia’s Rosatom LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia and Russia’s state-owned atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Sunday they had signed a provisional agreement for the construction of $300 million nuclear complex in the Andean nation. Under the terms of the accord, which needs…
Bolivia’s current presidential scandal goes beyond sex
From the Miami Herald: Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s scandal goes beyond sex The scandal over Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales’ secret love affair, with a young woman with whom he had a child who the president says has died, but the woman says is alive, is making headlines throughout Latin America. But that’s the least outrageous…
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