Opinion: Plan to preserve red-fronted macaw initiated; there are 1,160 According to statistical data reported in the 2021 census, 159 pairs are active for reproduction. The red-fronted macaw, an endemic species from Bolivia that lives in the dry valleys of Cochabamba, Potosí, Chuquisaca and Santa Cruz, is listed as critically endangered, according to the Cochabamba…
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In Bolivia, women earn 13% less in managerial positions | En Bolivia las mujeres ganan un 13% menos en cargos de jefatura
Juan Carlos Salinas, El Deber: The difference in income in favor of men is a constant, according to the Cedla Economic violence can be interpreted as the material dispossession of resources, income and assets; and implies the non-exercise of the right to access or dispose of them. Economic violence is also manifested in the sphere…
“You have to beat up the camba” | “Hay que sentarle la mano a la camba”
Manfredo Kempff, El Diario: That Jeanine Añez Chávez, from Beni, white, as well as nice, had assumed command of the nation, in November 2019, occupying the place that Evo Morales cowardly abandoned, must have caused immense pain among the mestizo and indigenous masismo that could not bear this insult. That a camba took possession of…
Let’s take care of our water | Cuidemos nuestra agua
María René Lievana Sandoval, Coordinadora de Comunicación, Fundación Gaia Pacha, Los Tiempos: BINOMIO. Unidos por el agua, Comunidad de Santa Ana, Beni. | Cortesía – BINOMIAL. United by water, Community of Santa Ana, Beni. | Courtesy Embassy of Sweden rewards three Bolivian teams for generating water projects Within the final event, each team presented their…
Bolivia: UN Rapporteur says Áñez’s conviction tinted with political meddling
MercoPress: Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Diego García-Sayán has said he saw politics had meddled in the judicial ruling whereby former Bolivian interim President Janine Àñez was sentenced to ten years in jail for crimes against the Constitution. The United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers said he saw a “political intervention”…
Chapare: Priorities | Prioridades
The first banana export happened under the Alternative Development program, a USAID project. Such export only happened since there were two trucks that came from Arica, Chile with tires and went back empty. The project gave high quality bananas, planting and harvesting techniques, credit, as well as marketing assistance to the banana unions that started…
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