Gabriela Canedo, El Día: Chaparina in memory “We are going to blow them up.” It was the threat of the Secretary General of the Confederation of Intercultural Colonizers of Bolivia against the indigenous people of the lowlands who were leading the Eighth March in defense of their territory and against the highway that the TIPNIS…
Category: Environment
Error del gobierno – Government Failure
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: 2019 Fire Scar Matches INRA Approved Settlements Until last year, the National Agrarian Reform Institute approved 1,455 new communities in the country, 945 in the Santa Cruz department. Most of them in Chiquitania Cicatriz de incendios de 2019 coincide con los asentamientos aprobados por el INRA Hasta el año pasado, el…
Bolivia declares a national emergency overwhelmed by forest fires
Bhavi Mandalia, Pledge Times: More than half a million hectares of forest are burning in Santa Cruz, a region in eastern Bolivia, at the gates of the Amazon, which faces two consecutive years of drought and high temperatures. The interim president, Jeanine Áñez, declared this Wednesday a “national emergency”, which will allow her to receive…
Incendios forestales – Forest fires
El Diario: In study derogation of standards 19 active forest fires in Santa Cruz Of the fires registered until yesterday [9/13/2020], 2 are in Concepción, 8 in San Ignacio, 4 in San Matías, 1 in San Rafael, 1 in Cabezas, 1 in Vallegrande and 1 in San Antonio de Lomerío, the last being reported in…
Incertidumbre – Uncertainty
Editorial, El Deber: The uncertain future of Bolivians Five months and six days have passed since the quarantine was ordered, since the economy stopped and since life changed for Bolivians. Since then there have been many bad news that we have had to face, all related to poverty, lack of employment, poor health, with nuances…
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