Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
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Senamhi declared hydrological alert
El Diario reports: Rains Due to the last rains that are registered in great part of the country, the National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology (Senamhi) launched a hydrological alert of red level by the probability of floods of several rivers that would affect regions of the east, the south of the country and the…
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Bolivia’s Almost Impossible Lithium Dream
Laura Millan from Hyperdrive reports through Bloomberg: One of the world’s poorest nations is sitting on the second-largest amount of the mineral needed to power electric cars. A small army of workers from cities and villages across Bolivia boards the buses for the last leg of a commute that can last days. The meandering, bumpy dirt roads,…
Civics from 8 regions ratify the civic strike in defense of 21F
El Deber reports: Civic leaders from eight regions, except Pando, met and ratified the civic strike for December 6 in defense of the referendum vote of February 21, 2016 Fernando Cuéllar, president of the Civic Committee for Santa Cruz, said on Thursday that the citizens of eight regions, except Pando, have ratified the civic strike…
Freedom of expression of the people at risk
El Diario reports: Citizens and opponents Assemblyman describes the pretense of punishing people as worrisome. They gave substitute measures to citizen who shouted to President Morales: “Bolivia said No” The population expressed its rejection of the policies implemented by the Government. Meanwhile, the ruling party maintains that what happened in Potosí is an isolated event…
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