Certainly that is a very intriguing question for 2012. This cartoon appeared in El Diario, January 3, 2012. Where is the Bolivian government going to???? Since this political party and current coca-grower and president started to govern, back in 2006, there are many of the “original” members of this government who are no longer there….
Category: Environment
Bolivia’s lithium to power electric cars
CCTV [links below are from CNTV] and Dan Collyns report from Uyuni, Potosi – Bolivia: Bolivia set to exploit vast lithium reserve 12-31-2011 08:00 BJT Hidden underneath an enormous extinct salt lake in Bolivia lies the world’s biggest untapped supply of lithium. The country’s president Evo Morales has pledged the exploitation of the mineral will…
TIPNIS and CIDOB start a trial against current Bolivian president
El deber reports about the TIPNIS ongoing fight to protect their territory and to protect a national park which belongs to all of us; for full Spanish article, please use link below: The Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB) yesterday announced the start of a responsibility trial to President Evo Morales: for violation of…
Bolivian government revised its position with UN’s INCB re: coca
Pagina Siete reports on Bolivian government next actions with the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB, JIFE in Spanish). [INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. It had predecessors under…
Bolivian Iskanwaya is as important and beautiful as Machu Picchu!!
Pagina Siete, Anahi Cazas writes today about Iskanwaya: The complex of Iskanwaya is going to become a Cultural heritage of Bolivia, a nomination that will help its conservation, renovation and promotion. Last Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted the law on Declaration of Iskanwaya as Monumental and Archaeological National Heritage; that will serve to…
Bolivian lowlands environment in peril
This cartoon appeared in El Dia, December 19, 2011. It says: “Happiness: Is the forest to destroy and plant single crops” and you see in the right side, an illegal coca grower planting the source for cocaine, crime and drug addiction. On the left side you have a private agriculturalists planting a single crop, could…
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