by Eduardo Franco Berton Shortly after Bolivia’s Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Area was established in February 2021, authorities began receiving reports of invasions and deforestation in and around the new protected area. Local sources say land traffickers are illegally buying up plots of protected land to resell, often repeatedly, to third parties. Mongabay spoke with one…
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2021: Bolivia’s Index of Economic Freedom
Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 42.7, making its economy the 172nd freest in the 2021 Index. Its overall score has decreased by 0.1 point, primarily because of a decline in trade freedom. Bolivia is ranked 30th among 32 countries in the Americas region, and its overall score is below the regional and world averages. [para…
Let’s stop being reactive – Dejemos de ser reactivos
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Learning from the rains Few natural phenomena are as recurrent in our country as the floods that occur every year in the rainy season, and the way we deal with their consequences makes it necessary to stop seeing the problem as if it were a fatality imposed by designs beyond human control….
Priorities – SERNAP – Prioridades
Los Tiempos: Director of Sernap gave Christmas-baskets to those related to MAS, but does not give working outfits to park rangers The Executive Director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap), Teodoro Mamani Ibarra delivered Christmas baskets to the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Csutcb). Despite the fact that the…
Excessive greed – MAS – Angurria desmedida
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Propaganda and poverty Christmas, whose spirit is still breathed in the atmosphere, is, among other things, a date that highlights the great deficiencies of millions of human beings. Bolivia, of course, is no exception: on the contrary, poverty levels have not been overcome, although government propaganda indicates otherwise. These days, when the…
Cleaning Time – Bolivia – Tiempo de limpieza
Editorial, El Deber: Corruption and impunity Corruption and impunity are two words that describe this dirty moment in politics. The plot of ghost items exploded in the municipality of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, but it quickly splashed other State institutions that work with public money, the one that Bolivians trust their authorities and that…
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