Eduardo Franco reports through Mongabay: EXCLUSIVE: RAINFOREST RAPIDLY CLEARED FOR SUGARCANE IN BOLIVIA Around 1,300 hectares were deforested for sugarcane between 2011 and 2014 in northern Bolivia, with 600 more hectares cleared between July and September 2016. Mongabay Latam reporters flew over the area to investigate the extent of the issue. This story originally appeared…
Tag: democracy in peril
evo’s legacy … as he continues to destroy Bolivia!
This cartoon [10/05/2016] is from El Diario: Bolivia led by the current president, is dangerously approaching the cliff, anarchy rules and everyone pushes to their own preferred way … The coca grower’s caudillo legacy can be summarized in the above cartoon … He managed to make Bolivians fight among each other. He sowed discord among…
Bolivia’s ‘Taliban’ miners have something to tell us
Eduardo Baptista writes in Varsity: Bolivia’s ‘Taliban’ miners have something to tell us When Eduardo Baptista escaped an exploding mountain, it got him thinking about how we make ourselves heard. I was sleeping blissfully with my face smack against the bus window when a cacophony of increasingly loud Spanish-speaking voices woke me up. “Blockade, the…
Tarija’s Mayor urges end to personality cults in Bolivian politics
EFE reports in Latino Fox News: Mayor urges end to personality cults in Bolivian politics LA PAZ – The Spanish-born mayor of the southern Bolivian city of Tarija, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, says that the Andean nation “needs to be a solid, institutionally based democracy” and to move away from a pattern in which political parties…
Outrageous!! Bolivian gov intends to perpetuate in power, WTH!?
El Diario reports: Opposition lawmakers They intend to modify the CPE intend so that Morales can run again Opposition lawmakers argue that the advertisements to call a new referendum to amend the Constitution of the State (CPE) using the issue of the Fiscal Pact and the redistribution of economic resources, has the real goal of…
There is political persecution in Bolivia!
The government of the coca grower caudillo has been consistent throughout these ten years. Political persecution has not ceased, there are over 700 Boliviians that have had to leave the country. So, democracy is in peril, let alone the scandalous and rampant corruption!
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