AFP reports for The Economic Times: 1/5 Devastating wildfires in Bolivia Wildfires in Bolivia have torched two million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest and grassland since August, including some environmentally protected areas, officials said Monday. One cabinet minister decried the “macabre game” of fires being put out, then reset behind the backs of firefighters…
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On the razor’s edge
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: The fate of the country is, at the present time, in a delicate situation in which its destiny will be inclined to progress or backwardness. The objective conditions of that reality have been laid bare in the electoral stage that is under development, amid contradictory conditions. The…
How evo is now perceived by the world’s socialist community …
Bolivian Thoughts Opinion: They usually tend to amaze me, I’m talking about the self-labelled socialists that pullulate our world … during the 90’s they were mostly known as the watermelons … red inside and green on the outside, as they intended to reinvent themselves as their “logic and theory” became impractical, while environmental issues were…
Official optimism and social pessimism
Editorial from El Diario, pictures from the internet: In Bolivia’s current political landscape – on the eve of a questioned presidential election, with a candidate vetoed by the Constitution, by the referendum of February 21, 2016 and the population that opposes the candidacy that tries to eternalize in power- there are thorny aspects, worthy of…
The slow agony of Bolivian natural gas
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, graph from the internet: Memories of the present Slow agony of gas It is sad to attend a funeral when some of the relatives are partying. Some cultures usually do the party, but after the burial. Before the death nobody does parties. What would the dying say. And that…
Sao Paulo forum, a very high price for Bolivia
A remarkable Editorial from Pagina Siete, picture from the internet: Given the warning that President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil made a few days ago, in the sense that President Evo Morales should not travel to Venezuela (new headquarters of the Sao Paulo forum), if he supports Nicolás Maduro – turned into a dictator in Venezuela…
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