This cartoon appeared today in El Diario, it represents what most, if not all, Bolivians feel about th ongoing struggle of the indigenous people from the TIPNIS who are fighting against a road construction that intends to cut their territory in half. The first person says: “…the ‘Evo’ in all these years has accomplished in…
Category: Potosi
Bolivian briefs: mining; fires; fexpocruz; Potosi demands
Mining: Bolivia lost the opportunity to produce more when international prices for tin, silver, zinc et al were high. As Pagina Siete reports by comparing the first semester of 2011 with 2010. http://www.paginasiete.bo/2011-09-27/Economia/NoticiaPrincipal/12Pla00127-09-11-P720110927MAR.aspx Uncontrolled fires: Two new fire sources add to the uncontrolled fire that has been burning for the last 15 days in the Sararenda mountain….
Bolivian real problem: hydrocarbons’ industry failure 9/23/11
The following article is from Rodolfo Mier Luzio, published by Pagina Siete today. It is extremely informative regarding how bad Bolivia is handling its hydrocarbon industry. Mier says that TIPNIS and even the October Judicial elections are just cover ups for a major problem of current government. Argentina is about to demand, per signed contract, 27.7 million cubit meters per…
TIPNIS group deprived from water!! (see chart below)
Ruy D’Alencar, special envoy from El Deber reports: TIPNIS protest-walk group can not get water! it is not because it is far away… water can be found in Chaparina stream, twenty meters away from where they were stopped by the police! Yes, 20 meters!! and they can’t have it! The group is on the road for its…
Bolivian mining sector inefficiencies… Déjà vu?
After six years of current government, the Bolivian mining sector is experiencing the same inefficiencies as before 1985. Former vice-minister for Mining Policy, Gerardo Coro told Fides radio and now published in Pagina Siete that the reason of his removal was he alerted that the production cost in Huanuni is higher than the international price. Last Monday, the price…
TIPNIS’ stakeholders, part II
This cartoon is from El Dia (9/21/11), it reads “Oppressed Indigenous” the TIPNIS protest-walk group is surrounded by illegal loggers with chainsaw, high landers with dynamite, policemen with clubs and shields and coca growers with whips. This protests group is surrounded, deprived from water which is nearby and food supplies were not allowed to reach them. In…
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