Bolivia: From Socialism to Capitalism in Just a Few Weeks

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The native socialism a la Evo Morales crashed and burned!

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Bolivia's new president Rodrigo Paz takes the helm

Hopefully, better times for the people of Bolivia! The US is renewing its diplomatic relationship with Bolivia.

Bolivian Election: Socialists Collapse After 20 Years in Power

Very recommendable! Eventually, socialism runs out of people's money!

Ancient Tiwanaku temple discovered in Bolivia

Amazing stuff!

"Long before the Inka (commonly known as Inca in English) rose to power, a mysterious civilization bloomed on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Known as Tiwanaku, it began as a humble farming village in the Bolivian highlands and, by around 500 BCE, grew into a sprawling city-state that influenced much of the Andean world. ...

Long before the Inka ruled the Andes, the Tiwanaku civilization carved out one of the region’s earliest and most influential societies. ...

Now, a team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable temple site 215 km (134 miles) from Tiwanaku’s core. This newly found structure, with its sunken courtyard and massive stone layout, mirrors Tiwanaku’s famous ceremonial platforms. ...

Tiwanaku, one of the Andes’ earliest urban societies, flourished with pyramids, sunken temples, and towering monoliths. But around 1000 BCE, it mysteriously collapsed. By the time the Inka arrived centuries later, Tiwanaku was already a shadow of its former glory. ...

Archaeologists uncovered a large ancient temple named Palaspata, spanning the size of a city block approximately 125 meters long by 145 meters wide (410 x 475 ft) with 15 enclosures around a central sunken courtyard. Its design appears aligned with the solar equinox, suggesting a ritual function. ..."

"An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent’s most powerful civilizations. Known as Tiwanaku, the ancient society is widely considered by archaeologists to be one of the earliest examples of civilization in the Andes and a precursor of the Inca empire, but it mysteriously disappeared about a thousand years ago. ..."

From the abstract:

"The nature and extent of the Tiwanaku state expansion in the Andes during the second half of the first millennium AD continues to be debated.

Here, the authors report on the recent discovery of an archaeological complex 215km south-east of Tiwanaku, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard strongly resembles a Tiwanaku terraced platform temple and demonstrates substantial state investment. Constructed, the authors argue, to directly control inter-regional traffic and trade between the highlands and the eastern valleys of Cochabamba, the complex represents a gateway node that effectively materialised the power and influence of the Tiwanaku state."

Ancient Tiwanaku temple discovered in Bolivia

Ancient temple ruins discovered in Andes shed light on lost society (original news release)

Gateway to the east: the Palaspata temple and the south-eastern expansion of the Tiwanaku state (open access)

This is digital reconstruction of the temple revealing a complex about the size of a city block. Called Palaspata after the native name for the area, the site was strategically perched at the crossroads of several ancient trade routes.

Behind the secret fight between global powers over the world's largest lithium reserves in Bolivia

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Bolivian police arrest rebel military leader in charge, Gen Juan José Zúñiga of coup attempt

That was apparently a short lived military coup!

Military coup attempt in Bolivia – President Arce warns of 'irregular' military action

Bad news! 

How Europe became addicted to cocaine

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So cocaine is much more expensive in Europe than in the U.S. Therefore, shipments of cocaine are preferably directed towards Europe from South America?

Lost beneath the leaves: Lasers reveal an ancient Amazonian civilisation

Amazing stuff!

From the abstract:

"Archaeological remains of agrarian-based, low-density urbananism have been reported to exist beneath the tropical forests of Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Central America. However, beyond some large interconnected settlements in southern Amazonia, there has been no such evidence for pre-Hispanic Amazonia. Here we present lidar data of sites belonging to the Casarabe culture (around AD 500 to AD 1400) in the Llanos de Mojos savannah–forest mosaic, southwest Amazonia, revealing the presence of two remarkably large sites (147 ha and 315 ha) in a dense four-tiered settlement system. The Casarabe culture area, as far as known today, spans approximately 4,500 km2, with one of the large settlement sites controlling an area of approximately 500 km2. The civic-ceremonial architecture of these large settlement sites includes stepped platforms, on top of which lie U-shaped structures, rectangular platform mounds and conical pyramids (which are up to 22 m tall). The large settlement sites are surrounded by ranked concentric polygonal banks and represent central nodes that are connected to lower-ranked sites by straight, raised causeways that stretch over several kilometres. Massive water-management infrastructure, composed of canals and reservoirs, complete the settlement system in an anthropogenically modified landscape. Our results indicate that the Casarabe-culture settlement pattern represents a type of tropical low-density urbanism that has not previously been described in Amazonia."

Lasers reveal ancient urban sprawl hidden in the Amazon A network of pre-Columbian canals and pyramids lurks within the thick forest

Lidar reveals pre-Hispanic low-density urbanism in the Bolivian Amazon (open access)

Lithium – new gold rush in the Andes

Recommendable! However, the video is often naive and one sided!

Electric cars are not environmentally friendly!

The END of EVO MORALES

Very recommendable! Bravo to the citizens of Bolivia! May we finally see mature democracies evolve in Latin America!