Renzo Abruzzese, PaginaSiete: Opposition parliamentarians In one thing the MAS has been more than efficient, in installing in the public perception the image of an inefficient, maladjusted, inoperative, inept opposition; any negative and denigrating qualifier fits what the ruling party wants to build as the image of the opposition deputies and senators. Under the fascist…
Bolivia declares health emergency over COVID-19 increase
Outbreak News Radio: The Bolivian government declared a health emergency on Thursday after the daily cases of COVID-19 increased almost fivefold in less than a week; despite the fact that the omicron variant has not yet been registered in the country. In the last five days, new daily infections increased from 1,355 to 6,149, double the highest peak reported on June 10, according…
Forests for Sale: How Land Traffickers Profit by Slicing up Bolivia’s Protected Areas
by Eduardo Franco Berton Shortly after Bolivia’s Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Area was established in February 2021, authorities began receiving reports of invasions and deforestation in and around the new protected area. Local sources say land traffickers are illegally buying up plots of protected land to resell, often repeatedly, to third parties. Mongabay spoke with one…
2021: Bolivia’s Index of Economic Freedom
Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 42.7, making its economy the 172nd freest in the 2021 Index. Its overall score has decreased by 0.1 point, primarily because of a decline in trade freedom. Bolivia is ranked 30th among 32 countries in the Americas region, and its overall score is below the regional and world averages. [para…
Let’s stop being reactive – Dejemos de ser reactivos
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Learning from the rains Few natural phenomena are as recurrent in our country as the floods that occur every year in the rainy season, and the way we deal with their consequences makes it necessary to stop seeing the problem as if it were a fatality imposed by designs beyond human control….
Priorities – SERNAP – Prioridades
Los Tiempos: Director of Sernap gave Christmas-baskets to those related to MAS, but does not give working outfits to park rangers The Executive Director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap), Teodoro Mamani Ibarra delivered Christmas baskets to the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Csutcb). Despite the fact that the…
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