Karen Lapizco, World Animal News: 10 Million Hectares Of Amazon Rainforest Has Been Designated As A Protected Area In Bolivia A new protected area of rainforest in the El Gran Manupare Integrated Management Natural Area was just designated by the Municipality of Sena, in Pando, Bolivia. This vast rainforest safeguards many threatened and endangered species, as well…
Lack of dollars, an offense to common sense | Falta de dólares, una ofensa al sentido común
Editorial, El Deber: The dollar and the economy There is no doubt that the year 1985 marks a profound turning point in Bolivia’s political and economic history for several reasons. The country needed to emerge from a whirlwind of hyperinflation and ungovernability that marked the three stormy years of the government of the Popular Democratic…
Evo Morales and the unfinished task of national construction | Evo Morales y la tarea inconclusa de construcción nacional
Pedro Portugal, Brujula Digital: Evo Morales lashes out against everyone. Now against his closest subordinates. In statements to Radio Kawsachun Coca, he evicts his former vice president, Álvaro García Linera: He is a traitor and a swindler because he allegedly never obtained the bachelor’s degree he exhibited in the early years of the MAS government….
Cobija, Pando: Rise of the Acre River | Ascenso del río Acre
El Diario: More than 500 families abandon their homes due to the rise of the Acre River The level of the Acre River, which reached 14.50 meters on the bank and continues to rise, caused more than 100 families to stay in various shelters and another 400 families to take refuge in the homes of…
Bolivia’s Socialist Rulers Mend Ties With Capitalists in a Nation on the Brink | Los líderes socialistas de Bolivia restablecen lazos con capitalistas en una nación al borde del abismo
Marcelo Rochabrun, Sergio Mendoza and Zijia Song, Bloomberg, Finance, Yahoo: (Bloomberg) — Bolivia’s socialist government is mending ties with business leaders it once snubbed as it grapples to prevent a dollar shortage from crashing the economy. Finance Ministry and other government officials met last week with representatives from sectors including finance, manufacturing, construction and pharmaceuticals,…
The struggle for the survival of the spectacled bear | La lucha por la supervivencia del oso jucumari
Madeleyne Aguila / Fundación Armonía, Los Tiempos: The spectacled bear lives in the mountainous regions of Bolivia. | Viviana Albarracín “As a member of the bear family and one of the eight bear species in the world, the Andean bear or spectacled bear is the only one that inhabits South America. Therefore, it is important to…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 