Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia (commentary)

Claire Wordley comments in Mongabay: Firefighters in Bolivia are tackling conflagrations that have burned an area larger than Costa Rica. Several national parks and Indigenous territories have been affected. Many Indigenous and civil society groups are calling for an end to laws that allow burning. I spoke to ecologists and biologists about what is being…

BOLIVIA’S ‘FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH’ IS YET ANOTHER REASON YOU NEED TO VISIT SOUTH AMERICA ASAP

James Booth reports for D’marge: Lost summits. Crunching glaciers. Barren plains. Bolivia’s fault-forged landscape is known for attracting climbers, hikers and mountain bikers more than Pink Flamingo Enthusiasts looking to chill in a giant plunge pool. That may be set to change. While tourism numbers languished around 300,000 per year in the early 2000’s recent reports indicate Bolivia now sees around…

evo’s lasting legacy …

Even if he were to obey the Referendum of 2/21/2016 that ruled him out for running again for the presidency, even if hw would do it today … this is the last of the wrongdoings he made happen, after 14 years of ochlocracy … evo managed to put out of business thousand of SMEs as…

Evo ever after?

Jamie Dean reports for World Magazine: As a new election approaches, Bolivia’s Morales may be seeking to become another South American president for life Each morning in the Bolivian city of La Paz, thousands of young men pull ski masks over their faces and baseball caps over their heads, as they wait for scores of…