The Newsroom: Concerned about the environmental impacts of paving the highway that crosses the region, residents of a town on the agricultural frontier pressured the city to create an integral conservation unit covering 37% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land. Such a script is unlikely in Brazil, where agribusiness, contrary to the…
Category: Santa Cruz
Carreteras cerradas por lluvia – Roads closed due to rain
Pagina Siete: Five roads in three regions are closed due to the rains The Bolivian Highway Administration (ABC) reported on the closure of three sections in the department of Beni, a fourth in the north of La Paz and the fifth in Santa Cruz. In Beni, the sections closed are: the Santo Domingo-Monte Grande highway,…
MAS: Fomenta la violencia – Encourages violence
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Permissiveness towards the armed group The armed group that operates in San Julián and Guarayos acted violently for the second time in less than a month, this time against police and prosecutors who tried to execute the arrest warrants against the main defendants in the kidnapping of a group of journalists, in…
Achachairú
Nicole Pinto, El Deber: The season of achachairú has arrived, know its benefits Small, showy and with a great flavor. The achachairú has made its way into the national and international market with its own merit. This fruit is typical of eastern Bolivia, the municipality of Porongo being the largest producer, where the “Achachairú Fair”…
Equipo boliviano triunfa en concurso internacional de biología sintética – Bolivian team triumphs in international synthetic biology contest
Pagina Siete: The project that the group, made up of more than 60 people, presented was a biosensor that detects arsenic in water (VIDEO). Bolivia won the gold medal in the international iGEM competition on synthetic biology. The project that the group of more than 60 people presented is related to a biosensor that detects…
¿Por qué está la gente en las calles? – Why are people on the streets?
Editorial, El Deber: Those who live in Santa Cruz see it every day, and perhaps from the relative normality of other cities it is difficult to understand exactly why people are on the streets in Santa Cruz in these nine days; but those who definitely do not want to understand the reasons why the ordinary…
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