Pagina Siete: Without medical attention, young woman gives birth in the middle of the street Surrounded by motorcyclists and neighbors who acted as midwives. This is how a baby was born yesterday on Avenida Jacarandá, Riberalta, Beni, where her mother could not reach a medical center. An hour and a half later, a Radio Patrol…
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Arce ignora y desprecia a los indígenas – Arce ignores and despises the indigenous people
Pagina Siete: Before Arce’s third snub, the march activates its Parliament Marchers who walked for 37 days affirm that they will not humiliate themselves before the Government and that they will apply their autonomy through the Indigenous Parliament. For the third time in eight days, President Luis Arce snubbed the XI Indigenous March in Santa…
Contaminación del río Tuichi – Madidi – Contamination of the Tuichi River
Brujula Digital, Los Tiempos: WCS alerts contamination of the Tuichi River due to mining activity within the Madidi Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) through its deputy director of the Great Madidi Landscape Conservation Program and coordinator of the Interinstitutional Group for Responsible Gold (GIT-OR), Óscar Loayza, warns of the mining contamination of the Tuichi River, which…
“It is necessary to heal the serious wounds inflicted on nature”
AMERICA/BOLIVIA – “It is necessary to heal the serious wounds inflicted on nature” urges Archbishop Gualberti Agenzia Fides: Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – “It is necessary to change our mentality and adopt an ecological spirituality, to stop the irrational exploitation of non-renewable natural resources, wild deforestation, forest fires, even of reserves and national parks. But…
Pink river dolphins – Delfines rosados de río
Monica Machicao, Reuters: Pink river dolphins: Bolivian scientists, fishermen team up to unravel mysteries LA PAZ, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Fishermen who once angled for rare pink river dolphins are working with researchers in Bolivia’s Amazon jungle in a high-tech bid to assure the species’ survival and better understand their needs. Scientists with global environmental…
Amparo Carvajal: Marcha Indígena – Indigenous March
Erbol, El Potosi: Amparo Carvajal in the Indigenous March: “These are the moments that make me strong.” “It is these historical moments that my history in Bolivia has that make me strong and grateful to life.” Thus, the president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB), Amparo Carvajal, described the importance for…
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