Gonzalo Chávez writes in Pagina Siete: Unity is a new nation project We begin 2020 with a task that seems Herculean and almost impossible to implement: the construction of a single party front that disputes the next national elections. Everything indicates that the Socialism Movement (MAS) will continue to be an important electoral and political…
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‘There’ll be war’ if Bolivia cuts coca growing, farmers warn [Should we say: narcotraffick will fund and want that war?!]
Maria Lorente, AFP reports via Yahoo News: Coroico (Bolivia) (AFP) – For the coca farmers of western Bolivia’s Las Yungas region, the loss of president Evo Morales — himself a one-time coca grower, and a champion of indigenous rights — is less worrying than the drop in price of their “holy leaf” crop. And the…
Mirtha Muñoz: A 70 year old Bolivian grandmother conquers ‘Death Road’
Reuters reports for The Economic Times: A 70 year old grandmother conquers Bolivia’s ‘Death Road’ 1/5 The ‘death road’ of Bolivia Bolivia´s “Death Road” might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels. The world´s most dangerous road spirals skyward nearly 11,000 feet, from the country ´s lowland jungles to the snow-capped…
Bolivia: Forest Fires – Emergency Plan of Action DREF N° MDRBO013
Red Cross plan reports via Relief Web: A. Situation analysis Description of the disaster In early August, a forest fire started in the department of Santa Cruz in Bolivia, which has increased the sources of accelerated burning. According to the most recent OCHA report (2 September 2019)1 on the fires, a total of 1,917 families…
Disaster strikes in Bolivia as fires lay waste to unique forests
This story is a journalistic collaboration between Mongabay’s Latin America (Latam) team and the Bolivian newspaper Página Siete by Carolina Méndez, Isabel Mercado on 6 September 2019 | Translated by Romina Castagnino Fires are raging in Bolivia, hitting particularly hard the Chiquitano dry forests of the country’s southern Santa Cruz region. Officials say the fires are largely the result of intentional burning…
UNICEF broadcasts messages on the protection of children and adolescents in Chiquitanía
UN Children’s Fund reports: Because the rights of Mother Earth are the rights of children, through an alliance with 32 local broadcasting stations in 17 municipalities in the area affected by the fires UNICEF can broadcast messages about care and protection of the children and adolescents suffering from this emergency. This activity reaches an estimated…
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