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The UK has issued a travel advice… as Bolivia is a torn country thanks to current gov’s lack of leadership!

The United Kingdom has issued a travel warning for people who want to come to Bolivia: Foreign Travel Advice BOLIVIA Summary Still current at: 21 July 2015 Updated: 21 July 2015 Latest update: Summary – industrial action in Potosí has led to road closures and shortages of food and water; if you attempt travel…

Flood the Madidi to stay in power

Raul Penaranda writes in Pagina Siete: Flood the Madidi to stay in power There is only limited economic vision that drives the Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera, a drive almost exclusively on extractive tasks to achieve economic growth. His close look, in which (almost) only enter options as drilling gas fields and mining, as well…

Is there reason to believe that Bolivian exports reached the bottom?!

Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Had the exports bottomed out? Data from the National Statistics Institute are lapidary: until May the value of Bolivian exports fell by 29%, with a severe drop in revenue for the country to the striking amount of $1,572 million dollars, just in the first five months of this year!…

Thanks to the masismo, Bolivia can rest in its laurels…

Current Bolivian government has created a new name and constitution for Bolivia… it has also boosted narco trafficking, anarchy, public official corruption, smuggling and lynching… So, no wonder the world had to come up with a video game that takes place in Bolivia… it is a shame and absolute disappointment on what those self-labelled populist,…

Environmental Sustainability Issues in Bolivia

This excerpt, from the Foundation for Sustainable Development has to serve us to sit and reflect over our future: Environmental Sustainability Issues in Bolivia One of the most pressing environmental sustainability concerns in Bolivia is soil erosion from overgrazing and poor cultivation methods, including slash and burn agriculture. Over the past few decades, use of…

Unchecked Pollution Befouling Majestic Lake Titicaca

Unchecked Pollution Befouling Majestic Lake Titicaca BAHIA DE COHANA, Bolivia — Jun 25, 2015, 11:52 AM ET By CARLOS VALDEZ Associated Press Gulls swept down to feast on hundreds of dead and dying giant frogs floating in the rancid waters along a southeastern shore of Lake Titicaca, where the algae-choked shallows reek of rotten eggs….