Ivan Paredes, El Deber: The Bolivian Amazon under attack: drug trafficking and illegal logging penetrate the area An investigation shows how gangs dedicated to the extraction of wood operate in the Amazon basin. Bolivia and Ecuador are the most affected by this crime. Behind them are the drug trafficking mafias that use the same routes….
Category: Environment
Claim to respect the environment but are highly ineffective | Dicen respetar el medio ambiente pero son muy ineficaces
El Diario: Las primeras víctimas de los incendios producidos por chaqueos indiscriminados son los animales. | The first victims of fires caused by indiscriminate slash and burn are animals. | Foto: RRSS They denounce the ineffectiveness of the Ministry of the Environment in the face of natural disasters The problems of drought and high temperatures…
Yareta (Azorella compacta)
Máximo Liberman, Página Siete: Yareta, the extraordinary survivor of the Andes Its resin is used in traditional cough medicines and as an antimicrobial; its overexploitation marks it as an endangered species in the Red Book of Endangered Flora of Bolivia. The yareta or llareta, whose scientific name is Azorella compacta, belongs to the Apiaceae family;…
Masista contempt for our environment – El desprecio masista para nuestro medioambiente
Editorial, Página Siete: Un-protected areas The government of Luis Arce has recently signed a controversial agreement with the Regional Federation of Gold Mining Cooperatives of the North of La Paz (Fecoman), in which both agree to continue the procedures for the exploitation of gold in the protected areas of Madidi, Cotapata and Apolobamba. The agreement…
Gastronomy – BOLIVIA – Gastronomía
EFE, Los Tiempos: Gastronomy. Alligator meat beats hamburgers in Bolivia Bolivia, a country whose attachment to culinary tradition made McDonald’s leave, has, however, adopted the consumption of alligator thanks to Marsia Taha, best revelation chef in Latin America 2021 and involved in projects that help the country’s indigenous communities. In addition to having put La…
Cañahua: Grain that resists climate change | Grano que resiste al cambio climatico
Andres Rodriguez, Opinion: The Quechua engineer who rescued from oblivion the grain that resists climate change Trigidia Jiménez’s life was always linked to the field. Her contact with the earth, with the sun and nature are her thing. Her first memories of her agriculture come from her father, who passed on his love for food…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 