Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: Assault in the national parks A sign of civilization and culture in a country is to create and support its protected areas, and within that is, of course, the maintenance and care of national parks, which are specific areas, where vegetation, waters and the fauna cannot be trampled by man. In…
Month: January 2021
Lluvia y caminos – Rain and roads
Allison Cuellar, El Dia: The ABC reports 24 section cuts nationwide The highway that connects the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba suffered a sewer collapse at dawn on Thursday at kilometer 103 of the Cochabamba-Santa Cruz highway (Montero-Yapacaní section). Traffic interruptions in Santa CruzThe highway that connects the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba…
Bolivian doctors demand lockdown as COVID surge threatens health service ‘collapse’
Monica Machicao, WTVB: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian doctors are demanding a nationwide lockdown and threatening to stop taking in new patients as a surge in COVID-19 cases, which they say is killing an average of one medic per day, strains hospitals to breaking point. New daily coronavirus infections in the Andean country, which received…
Falsedad – Deceit
Renzo Abruzzese, Pagina Siete: The presidential speech When we listen to the arguments put forward by the masistas, we immediately perceive that the masista discourse moves in a closed circle; everything begins and ends in the indigenous-native-peasant sphere. From this interpretative horizon, the “people” is made up of all those who have an ethnic-original identification,…
Solidaridad con Artistas – Solidarity w Artists
Pagina Siete: They organize a solidarity festival to support artists with Covid-19 The online meeting will take place this Saturday, January 30, and will include concerts and a virtual auction. In order to raise funds to support artists affected by Covid-19, next Saturday, January 30, the solidarity version of the Quarantine Song Festival and an…
Couple rescues bees threatened by deforestation in Bolivia
Reuters, Daily Sabah: A couple in Bolivia is moving honey bees to a sanctuary they created to address a staggering decline in the insects’ colonies due to deforestation and coca farming, which has encroached on their habitat. For 10 years, zootechnical engineering vet Eric Paredes and his wife Cinthya Callisaya Yujra have scoured the humid,…
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