Vaishnavi Behl reports for Condé Nast Traveler: As Amazon burns, another disaster is unfolding in Bolivia With the world’s attention turned towards Brazil’s blazing Amazon, forests in neighbouring Bolivia are silently burning. One million hectares of forest land have been destroyed, largely due to uncontrolled slash-and-burn farming. Per experts, more than two years’ worth of damage…
Month: August 2019
HBO Latino Snaps up Bolivia’s ‘Muralla’ by Gory Patiño (EXCLUSIVE)
Anna Marie de la Fuente reports for Variety: In its continued bid to provide a diverse range of films from Latin America, HBO Latino has acquired U.S. pay TV rights to Bolivian Gory Patiño’s thriller “Muralla” from Alfredo Calviño of Habanero Film Sales. “Muralla” was Bolivia’s official entry to the 2019 Oscars and Golden Globes. Back home,…
Bolivian food reflects our mestizo roots!
Alejandra Pau reports for Pagina Siete: Bolivian food tastes like miscegenation in an anthology book Researcher Beatriz Rossells traces the history of gastronomy. Rescue native products and culinary traditions to explain their current reinvention. The researcher and historian Beatriz Rossells during the interview. That attempt of the Spaniards to disappear the indigenous culture during the…
Bolivia is burning and we need your help! PLS donate, TKS!
There are two alternatives: https://www.gofundme.com/f/chiquitaniabolivia?sharetype=teams&member=2760886&utm_medium=social&utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=p_na How to help Bolivia: #Repost @waterthruskin (@get_repost) ・・・ Our world is currently in flames and nobody is doing anything about it. Therefore, we have chosen to take over social media. Disrupt it. Use it for a force of good. Influencers, celebrities, journalists, actors, models, motivational speakers, HUMANS. We have united…
Bolivian’s Amazon rainforest ablaze, fires are threatening people and wildlife
Claire F.R. Wordley reports for The Conversation: Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That’s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to repair the ecological damage done by…
evo to face lawsuit for biocide and ethnocide!
El Diario reports: Concerns of representatives MAS extractivist policy threatens indigenous people and ecosystems Indigenous people raise responsibility lawsuits against Evo Morales and his collaborators for biocide and ethnocide, they do not rule out going to international instances to denounce those abuses The extension of the agricultural frontier, the exploration of hydrocarbons and minerals in…
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