Morales to be paid $213 per month, in line with minimum wage Sport Boys say president due to make his debut in August A first division Bolivian professional football club have signed president Evo Morales to play in midfield at a salary of $213 per month and expect the leftist leader to make his debut in August, the head of the team said on Friday. Continue reading... ...
Protesters accuse military of discrimination against indigenous Bolivians but accusation has been denied by defence officials Bolivia's military leaders have ordered the dismissal for sedition of 702 enlisted men who had been protesting to demand they have the option of rising to the rank of officer. The army, navy and air force said in a statement on Thursday that they have ordered the dismissal of...
Inmates keep children inside with them fearing they will fall victim to abuse in homes on the outside Rosy is a young working mother who drops her two daughters off at school each morning before scouring the markets for ingredients to make the meals she cooks and sells later in the day. Every afternoon she picks her daughters up from school and they head home to San Pedro, Bolivia's most notorious...
Reaching 4,150m in the Andes mountains as it sails smoothly between La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia, the bold new Mi Teleferico is the longest and highest urban cable car in the world. Built at a cost of $234m by the government of President Evo Morales, it promises to transform what is currently a hellish road commute. Take a ride on the inaugural journey with William Wroblewski L argest urban cable car...
It will transform the lives of commuters between La Paz, Bolivia, and the mountaintop of El Alto, who currently have to zigzag up the slope in horrible traffic. But will everyone be able to afford it? First look at La Paz's cable car to the skies video Through its tinted windows, the gleaming-red cabin affords passengers a spectacular view of the glacier-capped Andes mountains as it glides serenely...
Spanish foreign minister declines to say where information came from that NSA whistleblower was on Bolivian leader's flight Spain says it and other European countries were told that the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board the Bolivian presidential plane that was diverted to Austria this week, causing a diplomatic row. The foreign minister, José Manuel García-Margallo, said on...
President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua have offered asylum to Edward Snowden, the US whistleblower who is believed to have spent the past two weeks at a Moscow airport evading US attempts to extradite him. The Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his Nicaraguan counterpart, Daniel...
s difficult for conservative candidates to move forward because inequality is such an entrenched issue," said Ana Quintana, a Latin America expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. "And it's hard to implement free-market, institutional reforms when you need to make sure a significant portion of the population can get enough to eat." Latin America's right could once identify itself as pro-business...
lives by turning them into vendors and tour guides Walking the cobbled streets of Bolivia 's capital with scuffed or dirty shoes attracts a lot of attention from the hundreds of shoeshiners who work along the city's streets and plazas. Wearing balaclavas and carrying wooden boxes filled with polish and brushes, shoeshiners are reviled by many as drug addicts and criminals, but their story is more...
s male population still work in mining; thousands more are involved in transporting, smelting, sorting and trading minerals. But 470 years of digging have left the mountain so riddled with tunnels and sinkholes that geologists say parts of the peak risk collapse . The government is racing to implement an ambitious $2.4m (£1.5m) plan to stabilise the Cerro Rico's summit by filling in a 700 sq m sinkhole,...
s twerking – and, of course, quinoa 1. Joanna Blythman: Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa? (16 January) 2. Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher: 'I always felt sorry for her children' (9 April) 3. Chelsea Welch: Tips are not optional, they are how waiters get paid in America (1 February) 4. Glenn Greenwald: Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette (8 April) 5. Glenn Greenwald:...
s oil wealth – had powered the resurgence of the Latin American left in the 21st century. With Chávez gone, the crowds returned again and again during the following weeks either to support or condemn his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who was always going to find it difficult to fill the huge political space left by his predecessor. As some clashes turned violent, there were a handful of deaths. But despite...
s police commissioner. "Organised crime, and its corrupting influence, is at work in every single country in Latin America." Just look at the news. In the autumn, police in Ecuador seized three tonnes of cocaine, ready to cross the Pacific. Soon after, half a tonne was intercepted in a tanker truck on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. On the heels of that discovery, 1.5 tonnes was intercepted in the...
s largest tropical rainforest • New species of the Amazon rainforest - in pictures A purring monkey, a vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among more than 400 new species of animals and plants that have been discovered in the past four years in the Amazon rainforest, conservationists say. Discovered through hundreds of scientific expeditions between 2010 to 2013, the total of 441 new...
Police arrest three people during police sting in Tigre, Santa Cruz state, but aircraft escapes after dropping bag full of cash Bolivian officials say they have found $1m (£620,000) in a bag tossed from an airplane. The interior minister, Carlos Romero, said anti-drug police spotted a man who was signalling to a low-flying plane at a landing strip. As the plane swooped low, a bag filled with money...
s latest scientific assessment of the phenomenon matches the observations and experiences of farming and other groups they partner in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The IPCC scientists, who acknowledge they often have only sketchy rainfall and temperature data for many areas in developing countries, say global temperatures have risen, extreme weather is more frequent and rainfall less predictable....
s the bigger picture on tax evasion? How much does the Spanish government lose each year and how do other countries compare? The trial of Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi on charges of tax fraud has come at a time when Spanish government coffers are running particularly low. Which makes it all the more contentious that tax evasion cost Spain €80bn (£67bn) in a single year. But that seems small fry...
commodity million' from Glencore back to countries where the company is accused of exploiting people and resources for mining A Swiss village has voted to donate 110,000 Swiss francs (£75,000) of taxes paid by Ivan Glasenberg, the billionaire chief executive of GlencoreXstrata, to charities in countries where the London-listed mining and commodity trading company is accused of exploiting people and...
s bodies and voices are degraded Traditional gender roles, a self-policing community, hierarchies where certain people are considered untouchable: that's a perfect recipe for rampant sexual abuse and inadequate prosecution. We've seen it in the Catholic church, in Hasidic Jewish communities , among Mennonites in Bolivia . So why don't we learn from these patterns? Why are religious authorities, mainstream...
s staunchest allies. Brazil and Bolivia are at odds over the flight of Roger Pinto, a Bolivian senator who had for 452 days been seeking asylum at the Brazilian embassy in La Paz. Like Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy in London and Snowden at Moscow airport, the opposition politician was stuck in diplomatic limbo while governments wrangled over his fate. Although Brazil offered temporary refuge, Bolivia...