Green-Energy Race Draws an American Underdog to Bolivia’s Lithium

By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times [lectura en español]: SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — The mission was quixotic for a small Texas energy start-up: Beat out Chinese and Russian industrial giants in unlocking mineral riches that could one day power tens of millions of electric vehicles. A team traveled from Austin to Bolivia in late…

Odio masista – Masista hatred

Carlos Toranzo, Pagina Siete: Hate as a state policy It is not only the friend-enemy logic with which the regime operates, it implies that there are no political adversaries with whom to debate; no, there are only enemies to destroy; part of the criterion: you are with me or you are against me, and if…

In the Pantanal, Bolivia leads environmental preservation

The Newsroom: Concerned about the environmental impacts of paving the highway that crosses the region, residents of a town on the agricultural frontier pressured the city to create an integral conservation unit covering 37% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land. Such a script is unlikely in Brazil, where agribusiness, contrary to the…

El desprecio masista por Bolivia – The masista contempt for Bolivia

Editorial, Los Tiempos: Scandalous justice The case of the ghost items in the mayor’s office of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the announcement of a summit as a way for judicial reform, the spectacular deployment to arrest a former civic leader of Potosí and the official attitude regarding these issues sketch a landscape nothing encouraging…

Canibalismo azul – MAS – Blue cannibalism

Lupe Cajias, Pagina Siete: From Ametex to Aasana What unites Teresa Morales Olivera and Arminda Choque Paca? The two were appointed to occupy high responsibilities in the public administration without having sufficient professional preparation. The result is a catastrophe for hundreds of families: Teresa put hundreds of Ametex workers out of work and Arminda accelerated…