Los Tiempos: Director of Sernap gave Christmas-baskets to those related to MAS, but does not give working outfits to park rangers The Executive Director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap), Teodoro Mamani Ibarra delivered Christmas baskets to the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Csutcb). Despite the fact that the…
Category: Environment
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…
In the Pantanal, Bolivia leads environmental preservation
The Newsroom: Concerned about the environmental impacts of paving the highway that crosses the region, residents of a town on the agricultural frontier pressured the city to create an integral conservation unit covering 37% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land. Such a script is unlikely in Brazil, where agribusiness, contrary to the…
UTAMA: Estrena en el Sundance – Premieres at Sundance
Pagina Siete: Bolivian film Utama to premiere at Sundance Film Festival The film is the debut of Alejandro Loayza Grisi Bolivian cinema continues to give joy: the film Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi will premiere in January at the Sundance Festival, one of the most important in the world. It will compete in the World…
Mercury has catastrophic consequences on Bolivian indigenous peoples, UN experts say
Merco Press [For Spanish version Pagina Siete]: United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has brought up environmental and human rights consequences, it was reported Wednesday. UN rapporteurs Marcos Orellana (toxic substances and human rights) and José Francisco Cali…
Uno que desprecia la libertad de prensa, no respeta nuestro Orgullo y Símbolos Nacionales – One that despises the freedom of the press, disrespects our National Pride and Symbols
ANP, El Diario: Coopman beat the director of El Potosí ANP expresses strong protest The miner Víctor Flores attacked the journalist Juan José Toro in a popular market in Villa Imperial Potosí (ANP). – The National Press Association (ANP) yesterday expressed its energetic protest at the second attack suffered by the content director of the…
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