ANF, Los Tiempos: Protected areas face clearing and mining concessions, park rangers denounce Protected Areas face serious problems of clearing plans and “invasion” of mining concessions, with scarce economic resources, without sufficient personnel and with a general director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap) who has no commitment to these areas, but with…
Land Trafficking Fuels Constant Corruption in Bolivia
InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
BOLIVIA BANS BEEF EXPORTS AMID SUPPLY FEARS, RISING PRICES
Daniel Ramos, Reuters, Successful Farming: LA PAZ, April 22 (Reuters) – Bolivia has temporarily banned exports of beef in order to guarantee supply for its domestic market and to prevent prices from rising, the government said on Thursday. “We are suspending meat exports,” Minister of Rural Development and Lands Remmy Gonzales told reporters, adding the…
Former Bolivian President Janine Anez has a kidney infection: her doctor asked to take her from prison to hospital
Freddie Dawson, Pen Media Inc: The former interim president of Bolivia, Janine Anez, was registered on March 13th while she was looking out from the Felcc Special Forces cells, in La Paz (Bolivia). EFE / Stringer A report from the private physician Janine Anez, the former transitional president of Bolivia, indicated that she suffers from “acute…
The Charm Of The Charango
The Odyssey Series, Wisconsin Public Radio [To listen to the instrument, click on the photo. To download it, use the link at the bottom]: The charango from Bolivia is thought to have originated roughly 300 years ago in Potosi, commonly designated as the “silver city.” It was crafted over time by South American Indian musicians…
The coca grower raves – El cocalero delira
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The purger should be purged The head of the MAS, Evo Morales, has announced an internal purge to get rid of the renovators of his party who are within the government of Luis Arce and of his party structures. That, according to him, is the main conclusion of the meeting to evaluate…
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