Strange Places in the World and How to Get There
Now that you’ve taken your NYS defensive driving course, you have the confidence to travel to anywhere in the world. You can explore the far reaches of Earth, discovering the beauty and the downright bizarre. More...
Audit: DHS issued citizenship to deported illegal immigrants from ‘special interest countries’
In the latest of many gaffes at the mammoth agency created after 9/11 to keep the nation safe, at least 858 illegal immigrants with deportation orders were mistakenly granted U.S. citizenship. It gets better; the More...
Discovery Channel’s new series, ‘Trailblazer’ will premiere March 30
Trailblazers comes to Discovery in March The quest to expand the boundaries of human knowledge takes scientists to the edges of the Earth where unseen peril lurks around every corner. From the deepest and darkest More...
Pope Francis accepts ‘Fascist’ hammer and sickle Cross from Bolivia’s Evo Morales
Pope Francis couldn’t hide the expression on his face when he received a wooden crucifix laid on a hammer and sickle, the Communist symbol conceived during the Russian Revolution. The Pope received the More...
Bolivia: Children as young as 10 can work, NCL expresses concern
Children as young as 10-years-old can legally work in Bolivia. Bolivia’s Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera signed the bill into law on Thursday. Prior to this new law, Bolivian labor laws allowed the minimum More...
Bitcoin: Currency banned in Bolivia while the Philippines welcomes its first Bitcoin ATM
A tale of two sides of the Bitcoin happened in the past week. First in Bolivia, the country’s central bank, El Banco Central de Bolivia totally banned the popular cryptocurrency and others saying that citizens More...
VIDEO: Journalist has to pry off the hand of Santa Cruz Mayor Percy Fernandez from her thigh
The mayor of the largest city on Bolivia, in fact, one fastest growing cities in the world, was caught on tape groping a journalist at a public event last week. Image/Video Screen Shot In the video, a journalist More...
Carmelo Flores, Bolivian farmer, claims to be 123 years-old and credits quinoa and potatoes
The oldest man ever documented may be from Bolivia, living in the mountains of Bolivia, born in 1890. A new Reuters article revisits the man’s claims as Carmelo Flores Laura even has a Wikipedia page to detail More...
Bolivia and Nicaragua join Venezuela in offering asylum for Edward Snowden
Just a few days ago, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, appeared to really be struggling to find a country to take him in after numerous asylum requests were denied. Edward Snowden doesn’t have a clue, Rep. More...
Edward Snowden has applied for asylum in six more countries, Bolivia not happy with US, Europe
The saga of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden continues as the 30-year-old stranded in a Moscow airport continues to search for a place he can call home and South American countries demand apologies from some in More...
Bolivia: Health officials say one million are infected with Chagas disease
According to a report today by the Latin American Information Agency, the Head of the Health Ministry Chagas Program, Max Enríquez said at least one million Bolivians are infected with the parasitic infection, More...
Yellow fever death reported in in Cochabamba, Bolivia
A person from the city of Oruro, contracted and died from yellow fever in the tropical regions of Cochabamba, Bolivia, being the first such fatality from the mosquito borne viral disease, according to a La Razon More...
Oscar Barbosa, teen commits suicide by piranha
A man in South America committed suicide by jumping out of a canoe into piranha infested waters. The Sun reports that fisherman Oscar Barbosa, 18, bled to death leaping into a Bolivian river full of piranha, suffering dozens More...
