Yahoo News: Por Angeli Gabriel LA PAZ, Bolivia – De casi 500 ciudades en el planeta, la capital boliviana de La Paz ha sido nombrada la ciudad más amigable con la naturaleza del mundo, según la Sociedad de Conservación de la Vida Silvestre. La consideración se basó en la participación de la ciudad en el City Nature Challenge, una…
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Bolivia ranks as fifth Country to Visit this 2017!
From Rough Guides: Top 10 Countries to Visit With annual visitor numbers barely reaching a million, it’s safe to say the world has yet to discover Bolivia. Make 2017 the year you explore one of South America’s most overlooked destinations. Trekking through the astounding biodiversity of the Bolivian Amazon, blazing through the surreal salt flats…
TIPNIS protest-walk update, as of April 18, 2012
As reported in El Deber’s website: The indigenous leader lamented that a week away from the mobilization, the President Evo Morales along with the Acting Governor of Beni Haisen Rivera, continue giving “gifts” to the villagers that inhabit the Isiboro Sécure National Park; looking after “splitting” the indigenous people and promote the failure of the…
TIPNIS heroic and courageous struggle update. March 19, 2012
From Gundonovia, David Moreno reports for El Deber’s website: Unanimously, around 38 communities of the indigenous territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS), spoke against the construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos road [through the TIPNIS] and the consultation stipulated by law 222. Criticisms of the ‘corregidores’ [local authorities] and some representatives of…
TIPNIS and CIDOB start a trial against current Bolivian president
El deber reports about the TIPNIS ongoing fight to protect their territory and to protect a national park which belongs to all of us; for full Spanish article, please use link below: The Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB) yesterday announced the start of a responsibility trial to President Evo Morales: for violation of…
Judicial official election’s results by Oct 29th
The head of the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), Wilfredo Ovando estimates the official results of today’s election could be delivered at most by October 29, 2011. 5.2 million people are expected to vote today; to elect 28 magistrates and a similar number of alternates for the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, and Environmental and the Council of the Magistracy. http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/politica/20111016/tse-dara-a-conocer-los-resultados-oficiales-de-elecciones-hasta-el-29-de_145832_301296.html
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