Laura Millan from Hyperdrive reports through Bloomberg: One of the world’s poorest nations is sitting on the second-largest amount of the mineral needed to power electric cars. A small army of workers from cities and villages across Bolivia boards the buses for the last leg of a commute that can last days. The meandering, bumpy dirt roads,…
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Bolivia is in Trump’s sights
El Diario reports: The State has been observed for the rights of workers; the age for child labor and human trafficking Through a journalistic note by Erick Foronda, sent to EL DIARIO, it was learned that two major setbacks were received by the Government of Bolivia in only 24 hours from the administration of President…
The APOCRYPHAL SINS Of BOLIVIA’S WORST President … wait! Let’s not forget evo is far worse!!!
Nick Dall reports for Ozy: General Mariano Melgarejo, the 18th president of Bolivia, had barely been in office a year when he was — according to some sources — defeated in battle in La Paz, the capital, by his archrival, former President Manuel Isidoro Belzu. Instead of accepting defeat, Melgarejo gate-crashed the victory party at…
Bolivia with the lowest agricultural yield
El Diario reports: Regional study of the World Bank Our country is at 0.3 on a scale of 1, in reference to the total cultivated land with respect to the suitable land AGRICULTURAL WORKS IN THE BOLIVIAN WEST, CARRIED OUT BY FAMILIES, MOSTLY FOR SELF-CONSUMPTION. Bolivia is at the bottom of the table of agricultural…
Re-election: “IACHR opinion is binding”
El Diario reports: Expert in International Law The head of the MAS caucus in Deputies, David Ramos affirms that the Court can only rule if there is a “disgraceful violation” of human rights LAST MAY, OPPOSIOTR SENATOR ÓSCAR ORTIZ MET WITH OAS SECRETARY GENERAL, LUIS ALMAGRO, WHO RECEIVED NOT ONLY AND HEARD HIS ARGUMENTS, BUT…
Bolivians sent remittances to the country for $942 million dollars
El Diario reports: January-September 2018 FAMILIES RECEIVE VALUABLE FUNDS FROM SPAIN, USA AND ARGENTINA. Bolivia received $942.6 million dollars for remittances sent, between January and September of this year, by its residents abroad, an amount that represented an increase of 0.2% over the same period of 2017, reported yesterday the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB)….
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