Relief Web reports from Médecins Sans Frontières: Bolivia: Doctors Without Borders Ends Chagas Operations, Urges Ministry of Health to Take Over Comprehensive Care in Rural Areas NEW YORK, DECEMBER 20, 2016—After 14 years of Chagas diagnoses, treatment and prevention efforts in Bolivia, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ended its Chagas…
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Bolivia sells 14% more airplane tickets
MercoPress reports: Bolivia sells 14% more airplane tickets Passenger air traffic in Bolivia has increased from 1,859,456 to 2,121,437 between January and August, 2016, compared to the same part of 2015, the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) reported, which means a 14 % increase. Air terminals at La Paz, Cochabamba and Viru Viru account…
Tarija’s Mayor urges end to personality cults in Bolivian politics
EFE reports in Latino Fox News: Mayor urges end to personality cults in Bolivian politics LA PAZ – The Spanish-born mayor of the southern Bolivian city of Tarija, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, says that the Andean nation “needs to be a solid, institutionally based democracy” and to move away from a pattern in which political parties…
Steven Soderbergh Wants You To Drink Bolivian Booze
Paste Monthly reports: Steven Soderbergh Wants You To Drink Bolivian Booze By Travis Mitchell The first time Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh encountered signai, it was love at first sip. “I had an instant reaction,” he says. “I had never tasted anything like it.” That was back in 2007 at the launch party for his movie…
Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell
Plastics News reports: Bolivia’s YPFB to license PP technology from LyondellBasell Bolivia’s state-owned petrochemical company will license polypropylene technology from LyondellBasell Industries for use at the country’s first plastic resins plant. Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) has selected Spheripol process technology for the 550-million-pound capacity plant in Tarija. Market sources said the plant is expected…
Independence 101: Jose Vicente Camargo, a patriot guerrilla from Cinti
Jose A. Diez de Medina writes in El Diario: Jose Vicente Camargo, a patriot guerrilla from Cinti It would seem that the Upper Peruvian guerrillas, known for their wins against the disciplined and brave Spanish armies, had been located strategically in their hubs, The priest Ildefonso de Las Muñecas, from his stronghold [republiqueta is a…
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