Bolivia

  • Disabled Protesters Vs. Riot Police

    Culture Buzz These photos are unreal. A protest in Bolivia demanding rights for the disabled turned violent yesterday as hundreds of people in wheelchairs and crutches clashed with riot police.

  • Bolivia’s Day Of The Skulls 2011

    Culture Buzz The Day of The Skulls is an ancient Bolivian ritual where skulls are decorated with cigarettes, sunglasses, flowers, and coca leaves. Some Bolivians believe a person has seven souls and one of them remains in the skeleton after they’ve been buried. Once the other souls have “left for heaven,” the remains are dug up and the skull is taken home and cared for. Once a year, the skulls are taken out and shown a good time.

  • Video: Have You Seen This Bolivian Man?

    Great moments in wanted sketches: South American edition! Update: “Cops claim that soon after they issued this image, people came forward with information allowing them to make an arrest over the case of a stabbed taxi driver.”

  • Michael Dwyer Facebook

    Celebrity Buzz Irish alleged Assassin used Facebook to talk about his 'hobby' of shooting. He and his Facebook friend were shot dead in a downtown Bolivian, Santa Cruz hotel on Thursday 16th April. See Michael Dwyer's Facebook here! Facebook ‘Gun For Hire’ Michael Dwyer, alleged Bolivian Presidential Assassin used his Facebook and Bebo profile to talk about his ‘habit’ of shooting, and dressing up in Military Fatigues. Dwyer, who is accused by the Bolivian Government and Police of being involved in an assassination attempt of Evo Morales, was shot dead in a shoot out at a downtown Bolivian Hotel, where his Facebook friend, Eduardo Rozsa Flores (49) was also killed. Flores was Bolivian/Hungarian and was Commander of a Balkan Brigade in 1991 during the war there. Dwyer, 24, was a graduate of Galway Institute of Technology. His favourite television show according to his FaceBook profile was The Unit, an American drama based on a top-secret counter-terrorism military unit. Recently he had uploaded hundreds of photographs entitled “hols” showing him and unidentified friends socialising in high spirits in what is believed to be Bolivia. There are also several albums of pictures taken in Ireland. Interpol are believed to be interested in helping to solve the mystery as to why an Irish man who has worked as a night club security, or bouncer, might have been involved in a Presidential Assassination attempt.


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