Rachel Fobar reports for National Geographic: Researchers worry that Andean hairy armadillos, poached in Bolivia and largely ignored by conservationists, may be headed toward extinction. Trudging along to a slow, mournful song, more than a thousand dancers in elaborate costumes fill the streets for the Bolivian Carnival of Oruro. As the procession advances, the dancers…
Tag: government failures
Bolivia will face an economic slowdown [asking to create a silk purse from a pig’s ear, I mean the incapable masista government!]
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: The weakening of the world economy will have serious repercussions in Third World countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to studies of the International Monetary Fund, the growth of the world economy will be low and this will determine that poor countries especially must…
Unemployment, serious problem [… and a result of how incompetent evo turned out to be!]
A great Editorial from El Diario: While the country enjoyed significant income between 2007 and 2014, it emerged in the population that finally new sources of employment could be created; but the little that was done was in public entities and mining and cooperative organizations; but the private activity did not enjoy advances in its…
Urus offer crafts to support families
El Diario reports: Creative works The frost, the overflow of the Lauca River and the evaporation of Lake Poopó left the inhabitants of the arid land without food Urus crafts women expose and sell their works of art until today in the artist’s house. The Urus de Chipaya, Llapallapani and Tinta…
As Bolivia Leader Sets Himself Up for 4th Term, China’s Influence Grows [evo gave away our natural resources, WTF?!]
Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Not only the ochlocrat/autocrat evo has surrendered our natural resources to China, but has allowed them to engage in labor mistreatment, endangering our wildlife, polluting and damaging practices that the Chinese are so accustomed to do, hence their “competitiveness” for its products. evo has also complied with China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba…
Neglect, rain threatening ‘Sistine Chapel of the Andes’
Carlos Valdez, AP reports for Bradenton Herald: CURAHUARA DE CARANGAS, BOLIVIA – A buttress supporting an adobe wall has collapsed and grass overgrows the patio of the four-century-old church whose dazzling murals depicting biblical scenes and remote location high atop a Bolivian plateau have earned it the nickname the “Sistine Chapel of the Andes.” In this…
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