Tatiana Castro, Los Tiempos: Park Rangers Must Face Harassment from Encroachers and Illegal Miners Park rangers must confront the lack of human resources, adverse working conditions, harassment from encroachers, and judicial harassment in their tasks of protecting the 23 parks and protected areas in Bolivia. They feel defenseless and unauthorized. The vice president of the…
Category: Social Unrest
Miner w/o authorization dares to sue park rangers for doing their work? Only happens under the populist masista corrupt gov | ¿Minero sin autorización se atreve a demandar a guardaparques por hacer su trabajo? Solo ocurre bajo el corrupto gobierno populista masista
El Diario: Cooperative miner suing park rangers was not authorized to carry out mining activities The Mining Administrative Jurisdictional Authority (AJAM) revealed that Ramiro Cuevas, the miner who is suing two park rangers from the Madidi protected area, is not the holder of mining rights and, therefore, could not carry out this type of activity….
Dollars and their impact on inflation | Dólares y su impacto en la inflación
Editorial, El Deber: The scarcity of dollars, a phenomenon that has intensified in recent months, directly impacts the prices of products and services, fueling inflation and threatening to erode the purchasing power of Bolivian families. The business sector has been one of the first to feel the effects of the lack of foreign currency. Importers…
The 21st of February changed Bolivia’s history | El 21-F cambió la historia de Bolivia
Editorial, El Deber: Eight years have passed, but the date is engraved in the imprint of Bolivians. That day marked a before and an after. That day, 2,682,517 people said No with their vote to Evo Morales’ reelection because they rejected the modification of the Political Constitution of the State that prohibits a third consecutive…
Ideas? No, thank you | ¿Ideas? No, gracias
Humberto Vacaflor Ganam, El Diario: With a furrowed brow and the attitude of a jealous public servant, the Government announced that it has managed to identify and arrest an individual who was selling gasoline at Bs 10 per liter. Meanwhile, the populace, distressed by the situation, has launched into a veritable brainstorming session, rightly assuming…
Devaluation and loss of purchasing power | Devaluación y pérdida del valor adquisitivo
El Diario: The Bolivian records devaluation and loss of purchasing power The shortage of dollars in the Bolivian market causes an increase in the value of products and services, while the Government does not give signals of supplying the currency, so companies are already taking precautions and announcing price increases for their items; the food…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 