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 [...]
Bolivians marked the 200th anniversary of their country’s uprising against Spanish rule with rival ceremonies in different parts of the country.
Addressing the nation, President Evo Morales said that Latin Americans were engaged in a second struggle for liberation against capitalism.
Meanwhile, the opposition held parades in the constitutional capital Sucre.
Bolivia is the first of many South [...]
The Chilean architects’ plan involves building a long underground tunnel from Bolivia through desert lands in Chile and Peru. It would be big enough for a train, cars, and a natural gas pipeline (click here for illustration). Land removed from the tunnel excavation would be used to make an island in the ocean for Bolivia [...]
As Bolivia prepares to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the start of its independence struggle from Spain, the BBC’s Candace Piette finds that colonialist attitudes remain.
Bolivia’s indigenous people are among the country’s poorest In a restaurant near the exquisitely preserved old town of Sucre, high in the Bolivian Andes, a gaudy dance troupe entertain with [...]
