Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: by Maxwell Radwin on 11 September 2023 Global food giant Cargill has been tied to the destruction of thousands of hectares of dry tropical forest, which were cleared in eastern Bolivia to make room for soy production. The food distributor purchased soy from farms in the Santa Cruz department where more than 20,000 hectares…
Month: September 2023
The growing water crisis | La creciente crisis hídrica
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The current water shortage in much of the country requires urgent actions to mitigate its consequences; these would also have to serve to define long-range programs, since water insecurity will not disappear with the arrival of the rainy season. Indeed, except for the humid plain region: essentially Beni, Pando and the north…
What Arce promises is much more serious | Lo que Arce promete es mucho más serio
Ernesto Bascope, Los Tiempos: Masismo 2.0, an efficient despotism Like many, I made the mistake of believing that Luis Arce would be a decorative president, just a pawn of Morales willing to blindly obey his former master. With the departure of the incompetent Mr. Chávez from the Attorney General’s Office, the former bureaucrat seeks more…
Cochabamba: Drought | Sequía
Cristina Cotari, Los Tiempos: Experts: Drought will last a decade in Cochabamba and will dry up southern rivers Cochabamba will endure prolonged periods of drought in the next 10 years due to the lack of rain, due to the El Niño phenomenon, according to experts. The lack of rainfall will mainly affect the southern cone…
The attorney’s resignation | La renuncia del Procurador
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The departure of Wilfredo Chávez from the State Attorney General’s Office is, without a doubt, encouraging news. This is so, because of all the dignitaries of the current administration, appointed by the President of the State, Chávez has been a benchmark of inconsistencies, incompetence and abusive exercise of the functions that he…
Deforestation by the hand of the masismo | Deforestación de la mano del masismo
El Deber: Deforestation: Data dismantles the regime’s discourse on Mother Earth By María René Álvarez, national deputy An investigation by the Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) concludes that between 2011 and 2022, in Bolivia a loss of forest cover of 37% was reached. Deforestation, land clearing, encroachment, indiscriminate burning, felling of trees and wood trafficking…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 