Encroachments – Avasallamientos

Juan Carlos Salinas, El Deber: Since 2021, more than 50 private properties have been encroached in Santa Cruz, according to Camacho The Governor of Santa Cruz criticized the absence of the Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and the INRA in the illegal seizure of land. An analyst says that the modification to the regulations of the…

What are you waiting for, President, to stop the violence? – ¿Qué espera, presidente para frenar la violencia?

Editorial, El Deber: Impotence and helplessness in Santa Cruz. The encroachments on land reach intolerable extremes, in the face of the indifferent gaze of the national government, the Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The images of yesterday’s confrontation are horrifying, because they leave evidence that these people who want to take possession of others…

Chaco: Ñembi Guasu

Mongabay: The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads by Rocío Lloret on 17 October 2022 | Translated by Sarah Engel This report is part of a journalistic collaboration between Mongabay Latam, La Región and Red Ambiental de Información. ROBORÉ, Bolivia—The Ñembi Guasu region is referred to as the “great refuge” by the Guaraní people of…

Natural parks, land of drugs | Parques naturales, tierra de drogas

Editorial, El Deber: The national parks of Bolivia are abandoned, the State does not take care of them and, as a natural consequence, drug traffickers appropriate them to install their cocaine factories there, when the settlers are not the ones who arrive first to occupy land, to clear and settle illegally with the help of…

Shameless encroaching – Asalto descarado de tierras

Editorial, El Diario: Order of the day: encroaching It is well known that in the 14 years of government of Mr. Evo Morales, one of his priority plans was the transfer of indigenous groups from the west to the east, starting with Pando. The objective of the plan was electoral –so it cannot be called…