IN MY OPINION Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Bolivia’s populist president, Evo Morales, has said he wants to win a third term in office with a whopping 74 percent of the vote in the Oct. 12 elections, and, judging from what his leading contender told me in…
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Encroachment is threatening one million hectares
Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Dia: Deforest protected area of the Rio Grande Encroachment is threatening 1 million hectares Report. The CAO accused the Deputy Mayor of Hardenman, of leading the wreckage. There is alert in the productive sector. The Eastern Agricultural Chamber (CAO) yesterday denounced the deforestation of a protected area in the town of…
Current president does not hold it together…
Humberto Vacaflor describes what is going on under the electoral campaign, he writes in El Diario: Campaign Errors To arrest Mario Orellana was clumsy by the MAS. Worse still, it was a mistake on the [election] campaign. Moreover, it was a demonstration of lack of coordination in the bowels of the political instrument of liberation….
Under current gov, there are still many unresolved corruption cases!
El Diario reports: 12 unsolved cases obscure transparency • YPFB, BoA, satellite and cable cars and other like buying Chinese barges and robbery to the BCB [Central Bank] hit the credibility of the Bolivian justice. • There are also reports that so far do not have enough evidence to start processes. Twelve cases with evidence…
TIPNIS aggravated again! They claim that the police gassed the Sécure indigenous people
ERBOL reports in Pagina Siete: THE FACT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT [08/22/2014] IN TRINIDAD They claim that the police gassed the Sécure indigenous people People linked to the government took the offices of the Sécure Subcentral from the TIPNIS. Police gassed last night a group of Indians who kept a vigil inside the offices of the…
Flooding in Beni, may have caused thousands of fish to die in the Machupo River from lack of oxygen
El Deber reports: BENI Thousands of fish die in the Machupo River from lack of oxygen Experts suspect that the cause of death of the shoal is due to pollution from the remains of dead animals after the floods earlier this year. Dead fish cover an area of 5 kilometers. A committee of the Governorate…
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