Mongabay: Struggles loom as Bolivia prepares new plan to clean up its mercury problem by Maxwell Radwin on 9 March 2023 Bolivia’s failure to combat illegal gold mining generated a heated national debate last year. Numerous news sites published investigations into deforestation, pollution and corruption tied to the mining industry, while leading officials in congress and the UN made public…
Month: March 2023
Central government denies reality – Gobierno central niega la realidad
Editorial, El Deber: Clean up the economy Time passes and cycles run out. The worst thing is to cling to what was without accepting that reality is now different. Eleven years ago, in 2014, the Bolivian economy was buoyant, revenues from gas exports poured in non-stop, and government spokesmen claimed that the economic model was…
Lambs’s head, a favorite dish for Bolivia’s night owls | Cabeza de cordero, plato favorito de los noctámbulos bolivianos
AFP, France 24: Oruro (Bolivia) (AFP) – At a table on a street corner in Oruro in western Bolivia, night owls get ready to tuck into a favorite dish touted as a hangover cure: roasted lamb’s head. Late-night diners savor every part of the head, using their fingers to pull off bites of meat and brain….
United front to recapture our Bolivia | Frente unido para recuperar nuestra Bolivia
El Diario: Manuel Morales (Conade) There is optimism in Conade for the formation of a united front Noting that up to now no objections have been raised by political, civic and citizen organizations, at the national level, to be part of a single bloc that will face the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in upcoming electoral…
The fury of Evismo for a chair – La furia del evismo por una silla
Editorial, Página Siete: After Martín Choque removed the chair in which Evo Morales was going to sit on the stage, Evism has shown what it is made of: intolerance, violence, persecution, resentment, revenge and irrationality. Martín Choque was the secretary of culture of the Uncía Mayor’s Office, but last week he was forced to resign,…
Survives 31 days by eating worms | Sobrevivió un mes comiendo gusanos
Amazon jungle: Man survives 31 days by eating worms Vanessa Buschschlüter – BBC News A Bolivian man has described how he managed to survive for 31 days in the Amazon jungle after he got lost. Jhonattan Acosta, 30, got separated from his four friends while out hunting in northern Bolivia. He says he drank rainwater…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 