Bolivia

Brazil's Petrobras resumes Bolivia exploration

iht.com     9 hrs ago   7 related          

Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras is pledging to spend US$1 billion on Bolivian oil and gas projects — making it the first foreign energy company to invest in Bolivia since President Evo Morales nationalized the industry...                    

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Bolivia: A month to conjure luck

miamiherald.com     10 hrs ago   4 related          

Huddled near one stall selling more than a dozen llama fetuses, another hawking porcupine tails and yet another offering bottles of homemade singani, the dangerously potent Bolivian liquor distilled from the muscatel grape,...                    

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The Natives are Getting Really Uppity

buzzflash.net     5 hrs ago          

First the Indians propelled Evo Morales to an unprecedented 68% electoral victory. Now they've dared to resist the so-called "strike" that the opposition's neo-Nazi thugs were enforcing. The indigenous insolence was cured with...                    

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Call to stop new violence against media in wake of recall vote

nieuwsbank.nl     7 hrs ago          

Donderdag 21 augustus 2008 | Reporters Without Borders ] Reporters Without Borders appealed again today for Bolivia's politicians to come together to halt renewed violence against the media, mainly in the country's secessionist...                    

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A busy month for Bolivian witches

iht.com     16 hrs ago   2 related          

Huddled near one stall selling more than a dozen llama fetuses, another hawking porcupine tails and yet another offering bottles of homemade singani, the dangerously potent Bolivian liquor distilled from the muscat grape,...                    

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Bolivia: opposition strike shuts down five departments

ww4report.com     23 hrs ago   1 related          

A 24-hour general strike in Bolivia's opposition-controlled departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Pando, Tarija and Chuquisaca Aug. 19 paralysed a large swath of the country's east. Clashes broke out in the city of Santa Cruz, where...                    

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Aug 21, 2008: Permanent Textile Collection at Textile Museum

yahoo.com     13 hrs ago          

The museum houses one of the finest collections in the world of early Islamic textiles, including tiraz and Coptic textiles. In addition, the museum has significant holdings of Indian, Southeast Asian, Central Asian, Persian,...                    

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Bolivia: No Strike in Yapacani

globalvoicesonline.org     yesterday   1 related          

The blogger Idolo from Yapacani, a province in the department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia writes that “there is no stike here [es]” and that the majority of his town did not join the strike called by the president of the civic...                    

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Awakening 'mountain that eats men'

guardian.co.uk     yesterday          

Indigenous workers find mixed rewards at infamous Spanish colonial silver mine Miners push and haul wagons of rocks dug manually from a cooperative mine in Cerro Rico mountain in Bolivia. This is Cerro Rico, a majestic mountain...                    

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ALERT! Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground

rainforestportal.org     yesterday   3 related          

It is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs...                    

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