Site work kicked off for Laguna Colorada project, Bolivia

Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy: Site preparation for the construction of a 5 MW geothermal pilot plant has kicked off for the Laguna Colorada geothermal project in the Andes of Bolivia. In a note on LinkedIn, a Project Director for Spanish Sacyr announces that preparation work has started on the pilot plant for the Laguna Colorada…

Political persecution – Persecución política

Erbol, El Dia: The whereabouts of the former authority are unknown López denounces the Government for abuse of power and persecution The former Defense Minister, Fernando López, was declared in absentia by the justice in the Senkata case. The former Minister of Defense, Fernando López, who was declared in absentia by the courts in the…

Despicable funnel – Embudo despreciable

William Herrera, El Dia: Funnel Law perfected The MAS government has perfected the Funnel Law: broad, condescending and relaxed for the ruling party and strict and rigorous for the opponents. And as a sample is enough a button, the former president Jeanine Áñez governed a year and is deprived of her freedom in a jail…

Bolivian lake becomes an arid, trash-covered wasteland

Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…