Brujula Digital, Los Tiempos: WCS alerts contamination of the Tuichi River due to mining activity within the Madidi Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) through its deputy director of the Great Madidi Landscape Conservation Program and coordinator of the Interinstitutional Group for Responsible Gold (GIT-OR), Óscar Loayza, warns of the mining contamination of the Tuichi River, which…
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Distribución individual de la tierra – Individual land distribution
Pagina Siete: Anapo proposes individual land distribution The National Association of Oilseed Producers (Anapo) asked the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) to act with the eviction of overwhelming people in productive properties and suggests that the land be distributed not only to communities, but also individually. The president of Anapo, Fidel Flores, read a statement…
Bolivia opposition call march to demand release of ex-president – Oposición boliviana convoca marcha para exigir liberación de la expresidente
AFP, France24: La oposición boliviana ha convocado manifestaciones contra el presidente de izquierda Luis Arce para exigir la liberación de la exjefa de Estado Jeanine Añez y el fin de la “persecución política”. El poderoso Comité Cívico de Santa Cruz, un movimiento regional de líderes empresariales y organizaciones sociales, convocó a una “gran marcha” el…
De mal en peor – From bad to worse
Los Tiempos: Downgrading of Bolivia’s outlook makes access to foreign credit difficult The international rating agency Moody’s Investors Service changed the outlook on the Bolivian government’s ratings from stable to negative, a situation that reflects a risk outlook of a weakening of the country’s sovereign credit profile. Moodys’s observed that Bolivia has a significant fiscal…
El paquetazo legislativo del Gobierno – The legislative package of the Government
Editorial, Pagina Siete: The government of President Luis Arce promotes a package of laws that aims to centralize power (even more) in the Executive Branch, which includes the control of much of the personal information of Bolivian citizens. The objective could not be more alarming and sinister. Among all of them, the most controversial is…
Fue pacificación, no golpe – It was pacification, not coup
Pagina Siete: In four paragraphs, the European Union was forceful in stating yesterday that in the meetings that were held at the Bolivian Catholic University (UCB) in November 2019, what was sought was a peaceful solution to the political and social crisis that the country was experiencing and in in no case a rupture of…
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