Focus on the Global South reports via CADTM: Pablo Solón targeted: The Bolivian Government Must Stop Persecuting Those Defending Nature and Rights and Address the Real Problems Pablo Solón, the Director of Fundación Solón, former Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and former Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), is being targeted…
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Chacaltaya shows fossils of prehistoric marine fauna
El Diario reports: Chacaltaya shows fossils of prehistoric marine fauna The reduction of the ice mass exposed a fossil deposit of prehistoric marine fauna from the Silurian period some 420 to 400 million years ago. Bolivian paleontologist Rubén Andrade of the National Museum of Natural History confirmed the existence of the paleontological deposit that was…
Earth from Space: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
SpaceRef reports: Earth from Space: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia The image shows part of Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni – the largest salt flat in the world. Occupying over 10 000 sq km, the vast Salar de Uyuni lies at the southern end of the Altiplano, a high plain of inland drainage in the central Andes….
Bolivia women’s rights groups hope revised law is step toward legal abortion
Myles McCormick reports for The Guardian: Bolivia women’s rights groups hope revised law is step toward legal abortion Procedure is currently illegal save for cases of rape, incest and health crises, a policy that activists say has encouraged dangerous clandestine abortions. Women’s rights groups in Bolivia hope that an overhaul of the country’s penal code…
Let’s hope this gets implemented: Will prosecute miners operating in Illimani
ANF reports via Pagina Siete: Will prosecute miners operating in Illimani The Minister of Mining and Metallurgy, Cesar Navarro, warned yesterday to confiscate the production, machinery and initiate a criminal process against the mining cooperatives that are operating illegally in the foothills of Illimani. “There are no documents proving the ownership of any private actor…
evo’s divide and conquer strategy to remain in power ad infinitum?!
Throughout Bolivian history, the police and military forces have been key to secure power to ruling parties … The coca grower caudillo’s strategy is no different, he relentlessly wants to remain in power, no matter what … eleven years ago, one of the first things he did was to force two general’s classes to leave…
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