The Weather Channel reports: Intense rain caused a mudslide Saturday [02/02/2019] in Bolivia that swept a half dozen cars off a highway and injured several people, officials said. The mudslide happened about 7:50 a.m. local time at a site called Puente Armas on a mountainous highway that runs between the Bolivian capital, La Paz, and…
Month: February 2019
US senators urge Evo not to be re-elected
EFE/Washington reports via Pagina Siete: “It is important that all parties respect the Constitution of Bolivia,” said Senator Ted Cruz. A bipartisan group of senators from the United States yesterday [02/02/2019] presented a legislative resolution calling on Bolivian President Evo Morales to respect the limits of presidential terms and not run for the presidential elections…
Where unsustainable mining once reigned, ‘radical change’ beckons
Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
Road advances affecting indigenous peoples of Tipnis
A necessary Editorial from El Diario: Indigenous peoples living in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis) are concerned that the construction of the San Ignacio de Moxos-Villa Tunari highway continues, including with the construction of bridges; they add that these works seriously harm them and that 65 populations will be affected not…
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