Toby Stirling Hill reports for The Guardian: The history of Bolivia’s Guaraní, an indigenous people living in the country’s southern lowlands, is one of struggle in defence of their territory. In 1892, an uprising against local landowners ended with the massacre of more than 2,000 Guaraní. A century later, Guaraní activists confronted oil companies seeking…
Category: Santa Cruz
Bolivian rice farmers are in emergency
ANF reports in Pagina Siete: Drop in prices Rice farmers are in emergency There are more than 300,000 tons harvested this year and 100,000 in deposits. The small rice farmers of the department of Santa Cruz have expressed concern that the price of food continues to decline. Since May, the kilo of rice sold between…
They unite to stop the trade in bushmeat
Carlos Muñiz reports for El Dia: Interior and Municipality They unite to stop the trade in bushmeat Road check points. Pailón and Cotoca are where most seizures were made by the illegal sale, officials report. Units of Biodiversity of the Governor’s office and Environment of the municipality of the city of Santa Cruz, joined forces…
Anarchy continues to invade land and destroy gabions that protect the environment!
Fernando Rojas reports for El Deber: They announce proceedings against illegal seizure of land people that divert river Searpi warns about the irregular channel built, that could flood 70,000 to 100,000 ha of the productive land of the boundary between Santistevan and Guarayos. Service Water Channeling Regularisation and Pirai River (Searpi), the technical arm of…
Better use for your car’s trunk or boot…
From The Telegraph: Bolivian taxi driver traps robber in boot Astonishing news clip shows taxi driver boasting about beating suspected robber and locking him in his boot [trunk] A Bolivian taxi driver apparently took the law into his own hands, apprehending a suspected robber and locking him in his boot [trunk]. The driver, from Santa…
Bolivia needs to expedite its export routes better!
El Deber reports: Exporters ask to clean water hyacinths at Tamengo channel Vegetation covers a major portion of the channel. Private sector does not see major problems. Again a part of the channel Tamengo and Caceres lagoon in the border areas of Puerto Suarez and Puerto Quijarro are covered by water hyacinths (vegetation), which prevents the…
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