Miguel Roca reports for El Deber: Transport and illegal logging increases the carbon footprint in Bolivia The vehicle fleet and the expansion of the agricultural frontier, among others, increase the emission of greenhouse gases that create the footprint carbono.Valeria Revilla, technical manager of Environmental Services Bolivia, reported that the per capita carbon footprint generated Bolivia…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Coca impoverishes agriculture
An Editorial from El Diario: Coca impoverishes agriculture Many regions in the Yungas of La Paz and several places that have valleys and headwaters of the valley, have been victims of coca, -when the plant is excedentario [in excess]- when used to manufacture cocaine. Los Yungas region has traditionally been a producer of vegetables, coffee,…
Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters
From Bloomberg BusinessWeek, although over a year old of being written, it holds fully: Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters By Nathan Gill and Veronica Navarro Espinosa January 24, 2013 Bolivia’s first international bond sale in almost a century is turning into a cautionary tale for fixed-income investors trying to bolster…
Bolivia gov neglects to acknowledge we are entering economic crisis!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The economic adjustment The government does not accept the crisis, is taking steps to try to reduce its effects but certainly their habit makes them insists and announce monumental works such as Palacio Quemado 2. Using wrong numbers by mistake or on purpose, it does not seem advisable. Probably…
Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open
Roberto Ortiz writes in the blog of the Panam Post: Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open International Warnings Do Little to Temper Drug-Trafficking Haven Roberto Ortiz October 27, 2014 at 4:24 pm One year ago, in October 2013, I wrote “Bolivia, the Narco-Trafficker’s Paradise,” published in El Deber and El Dia. My article…
Protected Areas of Bolivia 101
Jorge Arteaga writes in El Diario: “We should all travel to these earthly paradises” Protected Areas of Bolivia [Pics above belong to http://www.boliviabella.com/parques-nacionales-de-bolivia.html%5D Two-thirds of Bolivia are found in the Amazon that, on average, is about 200 meters above sea level (masl). Then, the Bolivian territory rises westward to reach the high plateau, about…
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