Bolivia Forestry Officials Profit from Harvest of Illegal Wood

Yuri Neves reports for InSight Crime: Officials within the agency entrusted with protecting Bolivia’s forests falsified data and provided documents legitimizing the illegal harvesting of timber, a scheme that occurs throughout South America. René Noel Sivila Céspedes is accused of signing more than 2,096 documents that allowed for the clearing of protected areas while he was the…

Tarija chooses saice as her flag dish

Los Tiempos reports: Tarija’s department chose saice as its flagship dish, and presented it today [7/28/2019] at a gastronomic and artistic fair in that city. “We greet and congratulate Tarija for the election of her flag dish, it was a joint effort that lasted approximately four months between the government, the municipal government of Tarija,…

The Persians are coming

Humberto Vacaflor writes for El Diario, old picture at the bottom is from the early days of evo in government, he always showed preference to meet with Iran, Libya, Siria autocrats: The noises of the Persian armies are getting closer and closer to Bolivian reality, as it had happened to the Greeks 2,500 years ago,…

Cold wave lashes rural area

El Diario reports: Government guarantees supply 2,200 families were affected, one deceased was reported in Chuquisaca and more than 30 thousand camelids are at risk of perishing 700 hectares of coffee, plantain, cassava, potatoes, corn and grasslands endure the climate impact The cold wave that reached the Bolivian territory from the beginning of last week…