By Brujula Digital, El Diario: The Bolivian Society of Pneumology has proposed declaring a health alert due to the environmental pollution present in several cities, caused by forest fires and “chaqueos” (slash-and-burn practices). In a statement, the organization labeled the chaqueos as “an attack on public health” and demanded that those responsible “be sanctioned according…
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A new cold front will enter the country, and the western region will experience snowfall | Ingresará un nuevo frente frío al país y el occidente tendrá nevadas
El Diario: This week, a new cold front will enter the country, causing temperature drops in six regions, while the western area will experience snowfall and frost, according to the National Meteorology and Hydrology Service (Senamhi). The temperature reduction will be felt in the Chaco and the valleys of Tarija, Chuquisaca, and Cochabamba, as well…
Fire in Roboré: evacuation is being prepared, charred animals are reported | Incendio en Roboré: alistan evacuación de población, reportan animales carbonizados
By Paulo Lizarraga, Vision 360: A closed road Fire in Roboré does not relent: evacuation of vulnerable population is being prepared and charred animals are reported The fire continues to affect the communities of San Lorenzo Nuevo, San Lorenzo Viejo, and El Naranjo. This is due to the strong winds recorded during the day. A…
Next dining destination | Próximo destino gastronómico
By Joe Yogerst, CNN: Why this is Latin America’s next dining destination Anticucho (beef heart brochette) with pinta boca potatoes and aji cream with peanuts at Ancestral in La Paz. Courtesy Patricio Crooker and Christian Gutierrez. CNN — Bolivia doesn’t seem like an obvious foodie destination. But the big, landlocked South American country is making waves in the culinary world via top-notch…
Indigenous threatened by violent invading miners | Indígenas amenazados por violentos mineros invasores
Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: Environmental activists in Bolivia say they’ve become the targets of discrimination, death threats and even bombings after speaking out against harmful mining operations in the department of Oruro. The activists, most of them women, have faced escalating violence this year because…
Fishermen demand suspension of mining activity in the Beni River | Pesqueros piden suspender actividad minera en río Beni
El Diario: Due to contamination Faced with the serious impacts and damages caused by mining activity on the population living along the riverbanks and on the commercialization of their product, the fishing sector has called for the suspension of mercury use and the cessation of this activity in the basins of the Beni River. “We…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 