EWB-Purdue FW: Letter from the Bolivia Office

[EWB Purdue]

Hello all,
As many of you know there was a travel suspension put on Bolivia last week. I thought I would forward this to all of you for context!
Best,
Amanda Lefebvre
EWB Purdue Chapter President
Civil Engineering | Purdue University 2021
alefebvr at purdue.edu | 815-341-7971


From: Engineers in Action
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 6:22 PM
To: purdueuniversity at chapters-ewb-usa.org
Subject: Letter from the Bolivia Office

An update on the political situation and FIEA-Bolivia 



You may have seen Bolivia in the news recently. 
Here's an update from on-the-ground.




The FIEA main office is located in La Paz, which means "the peace". © EEJCC/Wikipedia 
Dear EIA Global Community,

The past October 20th, Bolivia voted for their new government for the following 5 years starting in January 2020. The election brought to the country different political problems that ended in the resignation of the current president (Evo Morales) and created some episodes of violence all over Bolivia. 

Now that Bolivia has a new provisional president (Jeanine Áñez) who will call for a new election, we have the hope that we will move forward as a country with new authorities. 

I would like to inform that all the staff in Bolivia are safe, we evaluated the situation as this has been happening and took different actions to take care of the security of the people working with us. We think that the situation will improve slowly over this year until we have our new authorities.

Luckily, the problem started during our slow season, so few ongoing projects were affected with the problem. We needed to cancel one team that was coming in the middle of the problems and we are working to define new dates. We hope to finish this year with some delays but achieving all the activities planned. Next year will be a year of change in the country that the office is ready to face.

Sincerely,
Carlos 

MSc. Ing. Carlos Augusto Valdez Beltran
Director of Operations F.I.E.A.-Bolivia












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