By European Space Agency via Phys Org: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features an area in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia, where part of the tropical dry forest has been cleared for agricultural use. Since the 1980s, the area has been rapidly deforested owing to a large agricultural development effort where people from the Andean high…
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El gobierno de Añez retira la acusación por el caso Terrorismo
Página Siete informa: El gobierno transitorio de la presidenta Jeanine Añez, retiró hoy la acusación que pesaba desde el Estado por el denominado caso Terrorismo; la misma que se presentó durante la gestión 2009, tras los hechos ocurridos en el hotel Las Américas. El encargado de retirar la acusación fue el ministro de Gobierno, Arturo…
Terrorism case: judge says that the government paid and directed the vote – Caso terrorismo: jueza dice que Gobierno pagaba y dirigía el voto
Carlos Quisbert reports for Pagina Siete: Terrorism case: judge says that the government paid and directed the vote Sonia Mamani said: “I got tired of being pressured, threatened, controlled and manipulated” by Judge Sixto Fernández. Three former ministers will be prosecuted. The Ministry of Government paid for the trips of the members of the First…
El narco contra Bolivia
Claudio Ferrufino escribe en El Dia: ¿Están ciegos? ¿Qué pasa con intelectuales, pensadores y etcéteras respecto a Bolivia? ¿Por qué descalificar un alzamiento popular pacífico de millones? ¿Por qué ponerse de lado de los pocos miles, pagados, o afectados en sus negocios ilegales, que salieron a defender a Morales con muerte y amedrentamiento? Adrede afirman…
‘There’ll be war’ if Bolivia cuts coca growing, farmers warn [Should we say: narcotraffick will fund and want that war?!]
Maria Lorente, AFP reports via Yahoo News: Coroico (Bolivia) (AFP) – For the coca farmers of western Bolivia’s Las Yungas region, the loss of president Evo Morales — himself a one-time coca grower, and a champion of indigenous rights — is less worrying than the drop in price of their “holy leaf” crop. And the…
Mexican cartels in Bolivia – Los cárteles mexicanos en Bolivia
Editorial from Los Tiempos, photos from the internet: Mexican cartels in Bolivia Among the many problems that afflict our country, there is one that looms as one of the most fearsome threat to the future. These are the activities related to drug trafficking, and their multiple sequels. The data that account for the magnitude of…
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