Editorial, Página Siete: Cerro Rico: from apogee to debacle Paradoxes or open contradictions surround the attempt to save Cerro Rico de Potosí from disaster. Its sinking is clearly notorious, although warnings about it have long been established. In a period of 15 years, the gap in the very top of the hill has grown and…
Category: Social Unrest
Carvajal to the RJC: «Dear young people, for me you are a necessary resistance» – Carvajal a la RJC: «Jóvenes queridos, para mí son una resistencia necesaria»
Página Siete: The activist participated with Carolina Ribera in a vigil organized by Conade, calling for freedom for political prisoners. The president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Amparo Carvajal, during her visit to Cochabamba this Thursday, met with representatives of the Cochala Youth Resistance (RJC), whom she described as a…
Cultivos de coca aumentan en cuatro áreas protegidas – Coca cultivation increases in four protected areas
El Diario: United Nations Report From 315 hectares that there were in 2019, the amount grew to 454 until last year In the country there are 29,400 hectares of the leaf, that is, 7,400 more outside the 22,000 legal hectares European Union expresses its concern and current Government blames Añez government Four of the six…
Intolerance – MAS – Intolerancia
Editorial, El Deber: MAS intolerance against the protest Every time someone demonstrates against the government of Luis Arce, they encounter a counter-protest that comes out to try to quell the protest, usually with insults and violence that, on occasions, ends in incidents and injuries. This style of doing politics of the Movement to Socialism (MAS)…
Indigenous people question misuse of prior consultation for Chepete and El Bala projects – Indígenas cuestionan mal uso de consulta previa para proyectos Chepete y El Bala
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers issued a statement on these hydroelectric plants, which have already been rejected, and which they believe will cut off their rivers The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers, an organization that was created in…
Fires rage in Bolivia’s Chiquitania region
Ivan Paredes, Mongabay: Authorities are battling an outbreak of wildfires in eastern Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. Satellite data show fires have intensified over the past two weeks and are invading protected areas. The fires are destroying habitat spared by Bolivia’s extreme fire season of 2019. Wildfires in Bolivia are often associated with burning for agriculture, and…
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