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A Visual Feast of Murals and Graffiti in La Paz
Gringo Gazette
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August 28, 2025
La Paz is more than beaches and turquoise waters. It’s also a canvas of vibrant murals and graffiti. Across the city, walls burst with color, telling stories of daily life, legends, and the region’s deep connection to the sea and mountains....
Bolivia's Gas Exports at Crossroads After MAS Defeat
Oil Price
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August 28, 2025
The Bolivian presidential election is poised to have a profound impact on the country's natural gas sector, with significant implications for its commercial relationships with neighboring Argentina and Brazil. As both leading presidential...
ASX recovers on tech gains to shed just 7 points
Townsville Bulletin
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August 29, 2025
ASX flattens out, loses just 0.08pc Tech, uranium stocks led gains Real estate, banking stocks main source of weakness Not quite enough juice The tech rally couldn’t quite get the ASX 200 off the ground today, ending down just 0.08%. Losses in...
Closing Bell: ASX flattens out as tech gains catch up with banking losses
Stockhead
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August 29, 2025
While it wasn’t quite enough to push us into positive territory, the ASX managed to return to just about flat on a midday tech rally. Pic: Getty Images. ASX flattens out, loses just 0.08pc Tech, uranium stocks led gains Real estate, banking stocks...
Cosmos Exploration nabs DLE pilot plant to test Bolivian lithium brines
Stockhead
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August 29, 2025
The deal strengthens EAU’s development pathway and enhances the strategic exposure of Cosmos to the Bolivian brine testing project. Pic: Getty Images. C1X optioned entity EAU Lithium acquires A-DLE pilot plant from Vulcan Energy Resources...
Investornewsbreaks New Pacific Metals Corp. (NYSE American: NEWP) (TSX: NUAG) Unearths Modern Potential In Bolivia's Silver Story
MENAFN
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August 28, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) New Pacific (NYSE American: NEWP) (TSX: NUAG) , a Canadian mineral exploration and development company, is positioning for opportunity in Bolivia's silver story, which is centuries old, yet its richest regions have...
A worker walks between two industrial evaporation pools at a lithium production facility in the Uyuni Salt Flats in Potosí, Bolivia.
Buenos Aires Times
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August 28, 2025
The man vying to become Bolivia’s first elected right-wing president in two decades is promising to kick-start exploitation of the world’s joint-biggest lithium deposits after more than a decade of false starts. If he wins an October 19 run-off,...
Bolivia: Highland community gathers to protect river from cooperative mining
Latin American Bureau
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August 28, 2025
In the Bolivian highlands, the Indigenous community of Cala Cala is waging a battle to defend the headwaters of its river from mining. What began as a peaceful demand for dialogue has escalated into violence, abductions, and legal battles. At...
EarthLabs Expeditions, Bolivia's Mountains of Silver and Tin
The Kingston Whig-Standard
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August 28, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Article content Industry-first, ‘off-the-beaten-path’ travel documentary series focused on junior mining, celebrating the spirit of ingenuity and resilience that drives the industry Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp....
Bolivia: a second chance for the traditional political elite
Latinoamerica21
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August 27, 2025
Bolivia’s election results, beyond triumphalist or fatalistic interpretations from either side of the ideological spectrum, signal two key points. First, that the country’s liberal institutions still maintain a degree of health, and second, that...
End of Bolivia's leftist era leaves Chinese and Russian lithium deals in limbo
BNE Intellinews
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Bolivia's October presidential runoff, following the August election that ended two decades of leftist governance, has become a contest not only between centrist and right-wing political traditions but also over the management of the country's...
BOLIVIA: ‘Whoever takes office will inherit a divided country and will have to break with…
CIVICUS
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Interviews 22 August 2025 Ahead of Bolivia’s runoff presidential election, CIVICUS discusses the political landscape with Gabriela Keseberg Dávalos, a Bolivian-German political scientist. Bolivia’s 17 August presidential election, held in a...
“Night of the Stars” Shines with Inclusion in La Paz
Gringo Gazette
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August 26, 2025
For the first time in 16 years, the nationwide “Night of the Stars” astronomy festival will feature an inclusive approach, and La Paz will be the first city to host it. The event takes place August 29, 2025. About 20 civil society and scientific...
Graystone Eye’s Commitment to Care Reaches Bolivia
High Country Press - North Carolina
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August 27, 2025
Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 12:42 pm Updated: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 12:42 pm Hickory, NC — At Graystone Eye, our mission to preserve the gift of sight extends far beyond the walls of our clinics and surgery center. Through our...
Five Myths About the Crisis of the Left in Bolivia
Break Through News
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August 27, 2025
This article was originally published by NODAL – Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe on August 19, 2025. It has been translated and reprinted with permission from the publisher by BreakThrough News. I have read with great attention the words of...
A Lifetime of Money Becomes a Museum for the Bolivian People
LatinAmerican Post
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August 27, 2025
To mark Bolivia’s bicentennial, a family in Cochabamba has opened a door onto 8,000 years of value—stones, salt, coca leaves, silver reales, banknotes swollen by hyperinflation, even tokens for bitcoin. For collector Víctor Borda, money is no...
Una encuesta en Gaza revela que aún hay gazatíes que creen en la paz
Atalayar
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August 25, 2025
¿Luchar o no luchar? Un conflicto difícil de resolver Cuando la paz es posible Solo un 10 % de los participantes humanizaba a los israelíes Cuando las consecuencias de este conflicto hacen pensar que podría no terminar nunca, que dejará un trauma...
Bolivia’s right-wing ex-president Jorge Quiroga says he’ll ‘change everything’ if elected
Associated Press
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August 25, 2025
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Bolivia’s presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by budget-busting populism. Now, after three...
Eating bananas could cut risk of heart failure and death, new study shows
The Mirror
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August 29, 2025
Eating bananas could slash our risk of heart failure and death, research suggests. The bendy fruit is high in potassium and a study has shown people with heart problems cut their risk by a quarter by consuming more of the essential mineral. A...
As measles exploded, officials in Texas looked to CDC scientists but no one answered
Texarkana Gazette - Arkansas
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August 27, 2025
As measles surged in Texas early this year, the Trump administration's actions sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists that kept them from performing the agency's most critical function -- emergency response -- when it mattered most, an...