Amazon fires: What about Bolivia?

Reuters for BBC News: All eyes have been on the burning of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, as international pressure – and sharp criticism – have been heaped upon its president. But fires do not stop at borders, and Bolivia’s rainforest is burning too. The Amazon sprawls for millions of square miles across nine different…

Ecocide, Environmental Crimes and Political Responsibilities

Arturo Yañez writes in El Dia, pictures from the internet: Although keyboards are being spent on the subject, it is impossible to skip addressing it. We Bolivians are very emptied with the environmental disaster of our Chiquitanía: more than 500 thousand hectares destroyed, families, flora and fauna devastated. The reaction of the regime – arrogant…

On the razor’s edge

Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: The fate of the country is, at the present time, in a delicate situation in which its destiny will be inclined to progress or backwardness. The objective conditions of that reality have been laid bare in the electoral stage that is under development, amid contradictory conditions. The…