Pagina Siete reports: ABC reports eight closed sections in the country The Bolivian Road Administration (ABC) reported over the weekend that eight road stretches were closed to traffic due to landslides and floods. “The first section is Santa Barbara-Caranavi-Quiquibey, which at first has suffered several landslides at the height of what is Choro Alto, Choro…
Bolivian Mudslide Sweeps Cars Off Highway
The Weather Channel reports: Intense rain caused a mudslide Saturday [02/02/2019] in Bolivia that swept a half dozen cars off a highway and injured several people, officials said. The mudslide happened about 7:50 a.m. local time at a site called Puente Armas on a mountainous highway that runs between the Bolivian capital, La Paz, and…
US senators urge Evo not to be re-elected
EFE/Washington reports via Pagina Siete: “It is important that all parties respect the Constitution of Bolivia,” said Senator Ted Cruz. A bipartisan group of senators from the United States yesterday [02/02/2019] presented a legislative resolution calling on Bolivian President Evo Morales to respect the limits of presidential terms and not run for the presidential elections…
Where unsustainable mining once reigned, ‘radical change’ beckons
Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
Road advances affecting indigenous peoples of Tipnis
A necessary Editorial from El Diario: Indigenous peoples living in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis) are concerned that the construction of the San Ignacio de Moxos-Villa Tunari highway continues, including with the construction of bridges; they add that these works seriously harm them and that 65 populations will be affected not…
Bolivia Corruption Rank [under evo, the lowest ever, as expected!]
Pagina Siete reports, excerpts follow: … Bolivia obtained a score of 29 out of 100, where zero is very corrupt and 100 is very transparent, the country is ranked 132. … https://www.paginasiete.bo/economia/2019/1/30/bolivia-obtiene-su-peor-calificacion-sobre-percepcion-de-corrupcion-de-ultimos-siete-anos-207500.html Trading Economist reports: Bolivia is the 132 least corrupt nation out of 175 countries, according to the 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by…
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