Editorial, Página Siete: Un-protected areas The government of Luis Arce has recently signed a controversial agreement with the Regional Federation of Gold Mining Cooperatives of the North of La Paz (Fecoman), in which both agree to continue the procedures for the exploitation of gold in the protected areas of Madidi, Cotapata and Apolobamba. The agreement…
Category: Santa Cruz
The siege around Santa Cruz puts food security at risk | Cerco a Santa Cruz pone en riesgo seguridad alimentaria
El Diario: Losses caused by the siege and the strike in Santa Cruz reach $150 million. | Pérdidas ocasionadas por el cerco y el paro en Santa Cruz llegan a $us 150 millones. The poultry sector is declared in emergency due to the state of unsustainability of the productive activity as a result of the…
It is time for all Bolivians to defend democracy. | Es hora de que todos los bolivianos defendamos la democracia.
Carlos Toranzo, Página Siete: Authoritarian or dictatorial? Are the MAS leaders and militancies authoritarian or dictatorial? This is asked by many when trying to define the MAS and its governments. Some say that we live in a dictatorship; others express that we are facing an authoritarian government, but that we have not yet reached a…
Police forces repress residents of La Guardia | Fuerzas policiales reprimen a pobladores de La Guardia
El Diario: In the municipality of La Guardia there were moments of tension due to the gassing of the Police, in the confrontation between residents of that town who tried to intervene a blockade installed by social organizations that ask that the strike for the census be lifted. Hard day of violence in Santa Cruz…
It was a charade, a political gathering by populist leftist gov | Era una farsa, una reunión política del gobierno populista de izquierda
Daniel Stewart, MSN: Bolivia’s Civic Committee maintains national strike after rejecting the technical table proposed by the government The Bolivian Civic Committee has again rejected the proposal of the Government of Luis Arce to install technical tables to set the date on which the Census will be held, so the strike will remain active in…
A bewildered and incapable government prevents food from reaching its markets | Un desconcertado e incapaz gobierno impide alimentos lleguen a sus mercados
BBC News Mundo: The challenge of the Santa Cruz region that led the Bolivian government to ban exports of 6 staple foods The Bolivian government has temporarily banned the export of six basic food products, including soybeans, sugar and beef, due to a strike in the agricultural region of Santa Cruz. The export suspension came…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 