Correo del Sur reports: QHARA QHARA FILES HARASSMENT COMPLAINT IN QUILA QUILA Unions deny passage to a UN commission A human rights commission of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner was prevented yesterday [09/09/2014] to enter the territory of the Nation Qhara Qhara Suyu by a group of affiliated unions in the site, yesterday reported…
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Bolivia, 2nd most dangerous country in construction works
Marcelo Campos reports for El Dia: According to American expert Bolivia, 2nd most dangerous country in construction works Construction. Falls are the leading cause of death worldwide. The American specialist in fall protection, Jean Pierre Martin, said that Bolivia is the second country after Venezuela in not having rules to protect the lives of workers….
90 seized hides were destroyed!
Carmela Delgado reports for El Deber: ENVIRONMENT 90 seized hides were destroyed The market value of the destroyed hides is $20,000 dollars. The Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Governorate proceeded to destroy 90 skins of wild animals, which were seized in June at a craft store in the cruceña capital, Santa Cruz….
Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question
IN MY OPINION Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Bolivia’s populist president, Evo Morales, has said he wants to win a third term in office with a whopping 74 percent of the vote in the Oct. 12 elections, and, judging from what his leading contender told me in…
Encroachment is threatening one million hectares
Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Dia: Deforest protected area of the Rio Grande Encroachment is threatening 1 million hectares Report. The CAO accused the Deputy Mayor of Hardenman, of leading the wreckage. There is alert in the productive sector. The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) yesterday denounced the deforestation of a protected area in the town of…
Current president does not hold it together…
Humberto Vacaflor describes what is going on under the electoral campaign, he writes in El Diario: Campaign Errors To arrest Mario Orellana was clumsy by the MAS. Worse still, it was a mistake on the [election] campaign. Moreover, it was a demonstration of lack of coordination in the bowels of the political instrument of liberation….
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