This cartoon is from La Razon, September 26, 2012, illustrates how violent (dynamite in their mouths) the miners became… Ivan Arias makes an excellent description of how mining cooperatives function in Bolivia, so we can try to understand the violence, anarchy and “pay-back” from these supporters of current government. Article appeared in Pagina Siete: Colquiri:…
Tag: Oruro
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…
Mining 101: in Bolivia is a difficult business
Four articles related with mining in Bolivia, appeared in newspapers yesterday; they will help understand how this business currently operates in Bolivia. From Pagina Siete: In four years there were at least 114 [illegal] mining sites’ takeovers At least 114 mineral deposits were bullied in the past four years by cooperatives and herders, according to…
34 violently injured people between Potosi and Oruro, is this blunt anarchy or what??!!
Freddy Lacio reports for El Deber’s website: At least 34 wounded, four of them seriously, is the result of a clash between peasants from the municipalities of Quillacas, Oruro, and Coroma, Potosí, for the possession of tracts of land suitable for cultivation of quinoa, found in the boundary between of both departments and which are…
Unbelievable and irresponsible presidential remarks… February 8, 2012
I am certainly flabbergasted and looked twice in Los Tiempos website… and it was true; those presidential remarks do not only undermine his own presidential term, but authority and laws that are supposed to keep us at peace and like citizens from a nation in this 21st century… are being thrown down the toilet. For…
Who governs Bolivia? Quo Vadis Bolivian central government?
There is an ongoing border problem between Potosi and Oruro, people who normally are amicable are at the verge of a violent and probably deadly confrontation. Remember when this government let miners on opposing sides fight in Huanuni? At least 16 people died, and at that time, the vice president dared to only offer the…
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