… and make no mistake, Bolivian ROYAL QUINOA is the best of the varieties out there, and it can ONLY be grown in our highlands, Potosi!! other varieties are grown in neighboring countries, the USA, even China… but to my pride, OUR ROYAL QUINOA is for REAL and EXPORT! The UN, NASA are among the…
Category: Environment
Gov’s authoritarianism, now against the indigenous, they so falsely claim to protect…
A very descriptive sad reality… An Editorial from Pagina Siete: Attempts to weaken the Conamaq It is so evident as it is efficient, government’s policy to divide the social movements that are not under its control. First came the CIDOB, which supported the indigenous march against the way that the Government wanted to build a…
Bolivian authoritarian regime now intends to control environmental NGOs
From El Diario: MAS aims to control ‘environmental” NGOs The Senator of the movement toward socialism (MAS), Eugenio Rojas, reported yesterday that the Government does not rule out the control of the “environmental” non governmental organizations (NGOs)”, since they want to “grab” of the national reserves, the territories of indigenous peoples of the lowlands and…
Bolivian legal and informal economies… along with ochlocratic rulings…
Great enlightening article that portrays our Bolivia. Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Differential Yearbook The 21st Century Newsletter has tested a novel ‘differential Yearbook’, a balance which leaves 2013 in the legal sector of the economy and also the illegal. According to the American economist Peter Andreas, to discuss economics only looking at the…
Quinoa for export…? just the name or the actual produce??!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Quinoa for export It’s been the international year of quinoa and has left, a more famous quinoa in the world, but also leaves a problematic legacy: • The price of quinoa in Bolivia is rising despite the efforts of companies to keep stocked the domestic market. • The rest…
Ruling against illegal take overs is for real? part of a campaign? payoff?
ANF reports in Los Tiempos: DERIVE STANDARD TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES Senate approves law against subjugation The Senate last night passed the Bill against land take overs and was derived to the lower House for examination and treatment. The Senator of the movement toward socialism (MAS), David Sanchez, reported that the maximum sanction against…
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