Pagina Siete made public Apple company’s emerging technology which may take all our hopes away… The manufacturer of Apple tablets announces it will patent two batteries/stacks of fuel for their products, jeopardizing the development of the lithium market; However, the Government said that the theme does not worry them and progress will be made in the…
Category: Environment
Bolivian Park Ranger, a passion not a simple job. Environment 101, January 2012
Pagina Siete had the excellent idea to publish the Tatiana Sanabria’s report about Bolivian Park Rangers’ commitment with biodiversity. In the picture, Marcos Uzquiano, when he was working at Madidi National Park, for full Spanish article, please use the link down below: Being a Park Ranger in Bolivia is a lifestyle. These sentinels of biodiversity take…
Current Bolivian Government management style
This cartoon is from El Diario, January 8, 2012. It portrays both current president and vice-president. The latter is placing a big eraser in the elbow of the former. The vice says: “with this heavy-duty eraser you will be able to erase [with the elbow] all the short laws you will sanction..” [with the hand]…
New law in Bolivia to regulate land ownership by foreigners, January 2012
Pagina Siete reports about a new law that will affect foreigners who own agricultural land: The Government confirmed the wording of a draft law that will restrict the access and sale of land to foreigners, a proposal that emerged in the Social Summit in 2011. The Deputy Minister of lands, Edgar Valeriano, reported yesterday that…
TIPNIS under siege, January 2012
This cartoon is from El Diario, January 5, 2012. It shows an interview on the current “walk” by those people who want the road to cross over the TIPNIS. People who are no longer advocating the road between Beni and Cochabamba but to cross the TIPNIS! The press asks: “…Mr. Cacique (chief, boss)! tell us,…
Bolivian wooden furniture exports in decline…
El Dia reports about how some public policies cause more damage than the help/support they were designed for: The furniture industry has been affected in their exports due to the decrease of the availability of raw material, this in direct relationship with the implementation of the Digital Forest Certificates (Cefos), which creates a tight control…
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