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JESUS DE MACHACA, Bolivia In Ecuador, the Shuar are blocking highways to defend their hunting grounds. In Chile, the Mapuche are occupying ranches to pressure for land, schools and clinics. In Bolivia, a new constitution gives the country's 36 indigenous peoples the right to self-rule. All across Latin America, and especially in the Andes, a political awakening is emboldening Indians who have ...
Current Prior Producers Angola (Readj Kwanza) AOA 85.5 85.45 Bolivia (Boliviano) BOB 7.02 7.02 Brazil (Real) BRL 1.7325 1.7535 Burundi (Franc) BIF 1224.5 1224.5 Central African States XAF 438.445 438.725 Central Bank of West AfriXOF 438.445 438.725 Colombia (Peso) COP 1896.7 1911.4 Costa Rica (Colon) CRC 567.5 567.7 Cuba (Peso) CUP 1 1 Dominican Rep (Peso) DOP 36.06 36.035 Ecuador (USD) USD 1 1 ...
Akapana, Bolivia's ancient pyramid, is in danger of losing its U.N. designation as a World Heritage Site because local workers were called in to spruce up the stone structure with adobe to make it more attractive to tourists, Reuters reports. There is even concern that the additional weight will cause it to collapse altogether. The pyramid, located about 40 miles north of La Paz, is one of the ...
Eager to attract more tourists, the town of Tiwanaku in the Bolivian Andes has spruced-up the ancient Akapana pyramid with adobe instead of stone, in what some experts are calling a renovation fiasco.
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Bolivia Oil and Gas Report Q4 2009" report to their offering.
This was the headline being run by some media outlets in recent days, but before anyone panics, Brazil hasn't been taken over by Venezuela's Chavez, or Bolivia'a Morales.
Sean Anderson’s paintings and drawings of Bolivia’s rainforest are presented in a fundraising event for the Rio Beni Health Project at the Anderson ART Collective during the month of November.
Coincident with the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), the Third International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) kicked off officially in Tehran on Sunday afternoon. 20 teams from Belarus, Indonesia, Poland, Bangladesh, Greece, Brazil, Lithuania, China, Sri Lanka, South Korea, India, Cambodia, Slovakia, Bolivia, Serbia, Romania, Kazakhstan, and Thailand, as well as Ukraine ...
Jim Blaharski of Canton took the D to Lake Titicaca, on the border of Peru and Bolivia. Blaharski, shown on a reed boat, and his wife, Judy, visited the Uros Islands on the lake during a 10-day trip to Peru in September.
Peru 1 Bolivia 0 - World Cup qualifier result, South American group.
Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Alba trade bloc, led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez , agreed to create regional mining and agriculture businesses as the group concluded a second day of talks in Bolivia.
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AP) — Leaders of a bloc of leftist Latin American governments urged the international community Saturday to reject the presidential election planned by Honduras' interim government next month.
(AP:COCHABAMBA, Bolivia) Leaders of a bloc of leftist Latin American nations say they have decided to explore creating state-sponsored food and mining multinationals.
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - Leftist Latin American leaders agreed here on the creation of a regional currency, the Sucre, aimed at scaling back the use of the US dollar. Nine countries of ALBA, a leftist bloc conceived by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, met in Bolivia where they vowed to press ahead with a new currency for intra-regional trade to replace the US dollar. "The document is approved ...
Lima - Peru beat Bolivia 1-0 Wednesday in Lima in a clash between the two weakest teams in the South American World Cup qualifiers. Both Bolivia and Peru had long been out of the race for a place in South Africa 2010. ...
By Shelby Sebens Shelby.Sebens@StarNewsOnline.com Stanley Garfield Williams Jr., 38, was sentenced in federal court last week to almost six years in prison for his involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme out of Whiteville that netted $6 million.
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