The Bolivian government is to stop travelers from bribing their way inside one of the country’s most notorious prisons.
For years, and for the right price, travelers have been able to enter Cárcel de San Pedro in the capital La Paz for tours and even overnight stays.
Inmates had also cooked meals and sold crafts to visitors, [...]
For years, the Salar de Uyuni has been a remote but popular tourist draw in southern Bolivia: the world’s highest salt desert, whose blinding white expanse stretches to the horizon.
Now, though, the backpackers and locals who depend on their trade fear this spectacular and vast landscape will soon be threatened by multinational mining companies.
Because Bolivia, [...]
This is an interesting post by another Bolivian Blogger and he does make some good points.
Original Article HERE
This week when massive public protests broke out in Tehran I found myself not far away, in another Muslim nation but a very different one, Turkey.
While people all over the world this week have watched and debated the [...]
State-owned Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos agreed to assume the debts of Royal Dutch Shell and Britain’s Ashmore in nationalized natural-gas pipeline operator Transredes to avoid an arbitration process, YPFB’s chief said Tuesday.
Carlos Villegas told state radio that YPFB will pay Transredes’ $50 million tax bill as well as $120 million each to Shell and Ashmore [...]
