Rufino Choque, a member of the Urus indigenous community, stands atop a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopo Lake. Once spanning 3,000 square kilometers, this body of water was declared vanished in 2015. (Oruro, Bolivia. December 2021)
I’ve spent enough time staring at old Tiwanaku photos that I’m making up little scenes in my head. For example, I think it’s the same dog photobombing both these images taken in 1876 by Georges B. von Grumbkow. I can see him following the photographer around site and then growing bored and falling asleep at each stop as Grumbkow set up equipment and took shots. #archaeology#bolivia#photography#Tiwanaku
Today in Labor History March 20, 1985: The Bolivian authorities sent in the army to crush a General Strike. Workers had launched the strike in response to austerity measures by the Siles Zuazo administration. They demanded higher wages, stable food supplies, price controls and the president’s resignation. At the time, inflation was 3,400%. 10,000 miners filled the streets of La Paz each day. The General Strike lasted 16 days and spread to Santa Cruz and Chuquisaca. On March 24, the miners accepted a government offer to quadruple the minimum wage. They eventually forced Zuazo to resign.
AI DATA CENTERS are land, water, energy and minerals castles built for vampiric #techbro#colonialism.
we need to support more countries like #Chile pushing back at techbro #ecocide projects and not let what happened to Evo Morales in #Bolivia.
the official story is that Evo was ousted for corruption. the real story is somewhere in between that and Apartheid Clyde's mafia paying for his ouster so they can colonize the poorest country with one of the largest RARE EARTH deposits on Earth.
Latin American nations have increasingly sided with the plight of Palestinains against Israel.
Brazil recalled its ambassador to Tel-Aviv, following Lula’s comparison of the Gaza onslaught to the Holocaust
Venezuelan President Maduro stated strong support toward Lula’s remarks
Nicaragua is co-sponsoring South Africa's ICJ case against Israel
Bolivia’s Pres Luis Arce: Bolivia cut relations with Israel on the wake of Israel's assault on Gaza and expelled Israeli ambassador from Bolivia. More recently, Luis Arce expressed support for Lula.
'The UK government can never accept that nature or Mother Earth has rights, a British government official from the environment department has told the UN.'
'...asked to consider a draft resolution by Bolivia on “living well in balance and harmony with Mother Earth and Mother Earth centric actions," ...the US, the EU, Canada and the UK spoke against the resolution, saying they had not been given sufficient time to consider a complex issue that Bolivia had submitted at the last moment.'
Angus will be speaking in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 2nd Floor of the Anthro building, with Matthew as discussant.
NB due to building work, you need to use the main entrance of the Archaeology Institute round the corner in Gordon Sq. Please plan to arrive between 6:15-6:30 if possible.
#La Paz, #Bolivia
Small vehicles made by inmates to sell at the Alasita fair dry on the roof of the San Pedro men’s jail. The annual fair, which starts on 24 January, is a pre-Colombian event where people buy tiny replicas of things they dream of owning.
"Amid the discovery of a lost city in the Amazon rainforest, scientists are uncovering a different kind of relic underground — one that's still being used today."
BBC reports on the "'dark earth' revealing the Amazon's secrets."
🔹128% increase in cases in epidemiological week 52
"Health minister Castro stressed that this increase is "normal behavior" and that they are monitoring the situation and that it is not a "wave" of infections" 🤦♂️
Manuel Flores walks on a dry area that shows the drop in the level of Lake Titicaca, Latin America’s largest freshwater basin, as it is edging towards record low levels, on Cojata Island, Bolivia, October 26, 2023. REUTERS/Claudia Morales