Renzo Abruzzese made a wonderful analysis of the type of politicians who are ruling our public lives… from El Deber: The vice presidential speech The speech of the Vice President Álvaro García Linera in the Event of commemoration of the 18 years of the Instrument for the Sovereignty of Peoples [MAS, political party, currently in government],…
Category: TIPNIS
Bolivia and the long arm of international justice
Bjorn Arp writes for Los Tiempos: The long arm of international justice President Morales is worried about the consequences of his acts of abuse of power and violation of human rights that can have in international tribunals. And does not lack reason, history shows us that Governments, prosecutors and judges who do not respect the…
Bolivian Environment 101: WOW!!!
I’ve worked with FAN in the past and certainly keeps up its prestige and expertise, kudos to them! Current Executive Director, Humberto Gomez writes for La Razon: Megadiverse Mankind is ‘consuming’ a planet and a half. In other words, we are living of lent Recently, I read a note on the efforts of the Government…
A good or bad public policy for the Bolivian environment?
Pagina Siete reports on the new change in the environmental license requisite. Chances are that in order to “expedite” the willingness of current Bolivian government to offer more projects, the damage could be greater onto Bolivian indigenous communities and our National Park System, if current provision, later on, gets expanded. TIPNIS is not a small…
At last, some good news for the TIPNIS
From the Facebook account of Jacqueline Patino [Patiño]: #TIPNIS good news: Finally some light! They have admitted the popular demand. Read what was decided by the Constitutional Court. The Committee of admission of the Tribunal constitutional plurinational [Plurinational Constitutional Court], resolved: 1 Revoke the resolution 59/2012 dated October 8, as registered on “folios” fs. 54-55,…
Bolivia under induced coma or just central government failures to honor Bolivian society?!
Susana Seleme writes for El Deber: Induced coma Induced coma is a sedation under medical control to cause loss of consciousness in a seriously ill person. Applies to control anxiety, calming the patient, diminish physical pain, minimize psychological traumas and induce amnesia. Are those the reasons why keeping President Hugo Chávez de Venezuela in that…
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