Barbara Fraser reports for Discovery: Charred earth, shells, bones and human burials found in mounds on a plain in northern Bolivia are offering scientists new clues about the earliest known inhabitants of the southwestern Amazon. The remains, excavated from raised areas known as “forest islands” on the Llanos de Moxos, an extensive savanna, show the…
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Ten years on, family of Irishman killed in Bolivia still wait for answers
Tom Hennigan reports for The Irish Times: Investigation into death of Michael Dwyer in police raid held up by ‘farcical’ related trial Michael Dwyer: The Bolivian state’s version of what happened leading up to and during the police raid in which Dwyer was killed has been contradicted by eyewitnesses and leaked video from inside…
Bolivian coca/cocaine 101 … under evo: The failed Bolivian ‘model’
Susana Seleme writes in Eju.tv: The failed Bolivian ‘model’ “The world is a round mass that ferments. Ferments through oil … Ferments through gases. Ferment through the web. But there is an ingredient that is faster than the others and everyone wants. And it’s the coca. That plant that crosses the Atlantic like an elastic…
The acute conflict of the Qhara Qharas
El Diario Editorial, photo from the internet: As time passes, the serious contradictions in the agrarian question, contained in the current Political Constitution of the State, the INRA Law dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and the Law of Community Reconciliation of the Agrarian Reform approved by the government of Evo Morales,…
Saint Louis Zoo veterinarians assist with river dolphin rescue in Bolivia
Stephanie Baumer, Digital Content Producer reports for KMOV4: ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) – Veterinarians from the Saint Louis Zoo assisted in the rescue of river dolphins in central Bolivia. Veterinarians from St. Louis and the Maryland Zoo traveled to central Bolivia to rescue around 15 endangered Bolivian river dolphins that were trapped in a lake. The…
Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?
Mongabay has released a wonderful story about our biodiversity and wildlife peril … please use this link to read in full and admire those wonderful photos! https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/ Few countries in the tropics have seen trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between 2001 and 2017. Within Bolivia, nearly two-thirds of that loss occurred in…
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