FAN is one of the most credible environmental institutions in South America. El Diario publishes a saddening and cruel reality: FAN-Bolivia reveals that loss of 1,820,000 hectares of forest, affects production, health and biological diversity in the country Research puts Santa Cruz as the Department most affected, 76% having been deforested at the national level….
Category: Social Unrest
Bolivia is blocked!!
An interesting and opportune analysis by Humberto Vacaflor, from El Deber: We are blocked Brazil and Chile have tightened border controls to prevent the entry of the Bolivian drug in their territories. This has led to a drowning in the narco-industrial complex that has arisen in the area of influence of Chapare. The mafias that…
Are Bolivian subsidies a good and long-run sustainable practice?
Natali Vargas reports for Pagina Siete: Maintains support for fuels, electricity, flour and corn They subsidize 4 products to avoid price increases ANALYSIS specialists argue that the Government should assess the social impact that has on the people these benefits, although they believe that the poor should benefit more. In addition to fuels, the State…
Signs of anguish… only in Bolivia
An important analysis made by Humberto Vacaflor G. from El Deber: Signs of anguish That the Government have to cancel the 30% tax credit on the purchase of fuel invoices or to order the national tax service in 2013 for a 30% increase in revenues, are signs of some internal anguish. But, in addition, that…
Bolivia: The project to override private property
An important editorial from El Diario: The project to override private property The origin of private property goes back to the same appearance of the man on the planet and that sense of human society is in a process of evolution, whose final cannot be predicted, since the matter, in general, is in its infancy….
Bolivian Sociology 101: Ethnic groups in motion
This is a very interesting article written by Renzo Abruzzese in El Deber: Ethnic groups in motion Studies by Unir and Ciudadania foundations recorded a set of eye-catching data regarding ethnic dynamics in Bolivia. Information shows that inside the macro-ethnic structures, major transformations are taking place. The proportion of citizens who describe themselves as mestizo…
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