Juan Carlos Salinas reports for El Deber: In 2018 the Gross Domestic Product of the sector closed at 3.54%, according to the INE. In 2007 there was the highest growth with 14.35%. For analysts, it is the effect of deceleration. For the first time, in 13 years (2006-2018), the performance of the construction sector recorded…
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Bolivia lost 18.7 million hectares of its Amazon forest in 13 years
Berthy Vaca reports for El Deber: The damage is revealed by a report called Amazonia at the crossroads, which looks at six activities that pressure and threaten the Amazon in nine countries. Agricultural expansion is one of the main causes of deforestation in the country. On June 5 of this year, an international report was…
Fracking in the Bolivian jungle
Stefan Cramer writes in the Ecologist: Bolivian farmers have been resisting gas exploration in the invaluable Tariquía National Reserve – but they need international support. Bolivian president Evo Morales was inaugurated in 2006 as the first indigenous person to be sworn in as a president of a sovereign nation. Since then, he has shown extraordinary…
Mesa Hopes to End Morales’ Long Rule of Bolivia in Fall Election
Jose Enrique Arrioja reports for Bloomberg: (Bloomberg) — Carlos Mesa Gisbert, a former president of Bolivia, says voters should choose him over President Evo Morales in elections this October because he has better policies and because, after 13 years in power, Morales is a near-dictator of the left who could turn the country into another…
Bolivia’s Morales facing more protests as elections loom
BNamericas reports, pictures from the internet: President Evo Morales, who has already weathered a series of massive protests against his bid to run for a fourth straight mandate, is looking at a rocky road to Bolivia’s October elections. Morales has legally overturned a 2016 referendum rejecting his candidacy and now faces a potential national strike when influential opposition movement…
21 former head of states denounce Evo
Editorial from Pagina Siete, photos from internet: One of the most important international actions against the new nomination of President Evo Morales and his attempt to “perpetuate” himself in power has been the letter sent to the OAS by 21 former mandataries from the region plus Spain. These 21 former presidents represent different ideological tendencies…
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