Cartoons and calendars help Bolivian farmers dampen fire risk

Sophie Hares reports for Reuters: Cartoons and calendars help Bolivian farmers dampen fire risk TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A mix of high-tech satellite data and brightly colored cartoons is helping subsistence farmers around Riberalta in Bolivia’s northern Amazon pick the best time to burn off their land and reduce the risk of uncontrolled…

Bolivia Investigates Arms Shipment from USA

Prensa Latina reports: Bolivia Investigates Arms Shipment from USA La Paz, Feb 19 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian authorities continue today investigating over an arms shipment from United States which was discovered on Friday in Santa Cruz department, hidden in the double bottom of a trailer. These are 34 machine guns and long range rifles, some with…

Damn the Chinese and damn evo!

David Hill reports for The Guardian: Fears for isolated Bolivian tribe met by Chinese oil firm in Amazon Company operating near the border with Peru has reportedly had near encounters with indigenous people living in “isolation” Teams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters…

A nightmare called evo …

This cartoon is from El Diario, 10/12/2016: It reflects what we Bolivians had to endure for the last eleven years, under the worst possible populist ochlocrat. Stopping on democracy this relentless coca grower leader wants to remain in power. He changed the Constitution so he could remain in power, despite his first declaration that he…