by Iván Paredes Tamayo on 11 January 2022 | Translated by Max Radwin, Mongabay: More than 5,000 Indigenous people would be impacted by flooding from the construction of two dams in Bolivia, according to Indigenous organizations and environmentalists. Successive governments have mulled the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project for more than half a century, and the current administration of…
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Green-Energy Race Draws an American Underdog to Bolivia’s Lithium
By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times [lectura en español]: SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — The mission was quixotic for a small Texas energy start-up: Beat out Chinese and Russian industrial giants in unlocking mineral riches that could one day power tens of millions of electric vehicles. A team traveled from Austin to Bolivia in late…
NO a la represa/No to the dam: Chepete-El Bala
ANF, El Diario: Defense Committee rejects the Chepete-El Bala project Through a public statement, the Committee for the Defense of Amazonian life in the Madera River Basin rejected the implementation of the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project as an ecocidal threat, that is, of destruction of nature. Denounced that the government of Luis Arce Catacora intends…
Carro eléctrico – Quantum – Electric car
Giuliana Jaldin, Los Tiempos: Quantum surprises with an electric car that can be controlled from the cell phone Quantum Motors Marketing Manager, Marcelo Durán, said that the company brought several attractions for visitors to the 37th Cochabamba International Fair (FIC) to enjoy. Among the most prominent are a disassembled electric car so that people can…
Se agota – Gas – Runs out
Editorial, Los Tiempos: The official and governmental effort to rewrite history and impose the lie of the “coup” to erase the electoral fraud of 2019 contrasts with the discretion of the actions that should be taken to face the economic situation of the country, and mainly of the State. While the judicial and street persecutions…
Retraso económico – Economic backwardness
Editorial, El Diario: Factors behind the backwardness of our economy Mentions from the President, his Minister of Economy and others from the presidential Cabinet propagate an accelerated reactivation of the national economy. The parliamentary majority acts as a sounding board for the Executive Branch and joins such fallacies with the attempt to engulf the citizenry….
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