Iván Paredes Tamayo on 12 November 2021 | Translated by Sarah Engel, Mongabay: Bajo Paraguá – San Ignacio de Velasco Municipal Protected Area was created on February 12, 2021, to protect 983,000 hectares (about 2,429,045 acres) of primary forest in the Chiquitania region of Bolivia. But despite its new protected status, residents are reporting invasions and human…
Month: November 2021
Diálogo sincero – Sincere dialogue
El Diario: Dialogue must be sincere and with all sectors After the Government’s call to the guild merchants for a dialogue on Saturday, the governor of Santa Cruz, Fernando Camacho, asked the government authorities that this dialogue be transparent and sincere and that it include all sectors that ask for the repeal of Law 1386,…
Fracasó la política – Politics failed
Editorial, El Deber: Bolivia, the failure of politics If the Government of Luis Arce believes that by ignoring, neglecting or repressing the protest in Santa Cruz, and now also in Potosí, it is going to overcome the most serious crisis of its administration, it is that it does not understand politics or learn from the…
Vivanco urges Arce to guarantee the right to peaceful protest in Bolivia
EFE, Market Research Telecast [para español, aqui]: La Paz, Nov 10 (EFE) .- The director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW), José Miguel Vivanco, urged the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, to “ensure” the right to peaceful protest after the strong clashes registered in the three days of the indefinite strike in the…
Gobierno indolente, corrupto y sanguinario – Indolent, corrupt and bloodthirsty government
Guider Arancibia, El Deber: Hooded men who attacked roadblocks were in vehicles seized from drug trafficking Two of the three pick-up tracks were identified by police. One of them was seized in the operation that intervened in the luxurious Imperial events room. The law establishes that these assets must be given to social welfare entities….
Bolivia unions go on strike as political tensions rise
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Bolivia’s transport and retail unions launched an indefinite strike on Monday to protest a law against so-called “illicit profits” and terrorist financing that critics allege is a government ruse to seize private property. Opposition civil and political groups joined the strike, accusing the socialist government of…
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