ANF, Página Siete: Santos Quispe dismisses the deputy governor who denounced illegal gold exploitation The former authority considered that her dismissal was due to her strong defense of natural reserves, in the face of mining depredation in the north of La Paz. “For denouncing illegal mining, they fired me,” said Genoveva Espinoza, who yesterday was…
Tag: environmental damage
Titicaca: A polluted lake | Un lago contaminado
EFE, Los Tiempos: Vista del lago Titicaca. | View of Lake Titicaca. | Foto archivo They identify more than a hundred polluting sources of Lake Titicaca More than a hundred polluting sources harm the quality of the waters of Lake Titicaca, according to the latest inventory carried out by the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca…
Illegal mining, absent state | Minería ilegal, Estado ausente
Editorial, El Deber: In the south of the Madidi National Park, in the municipality of Apolo in the department of La Paz, community members and illegal miners shoot each other, burn houses, kidnappings take place and the State makes its complete absence shine there. On Tuesday of this week there was a confrontation that left…
Narcotraffic = MASismo
Editorial, El Deber: Intolerable drug trafficking in Bolivia The tentacles of drug trafficking spread out of control in Bolivia. The news related to the subject is almost daily, some due to the discovery of packages (increasingly larger) of cocaine; others for crimes or settling scores. What has just happened with some members of the Ayoreo…
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…
What El Chapare hides – Lo que esconde El Chapare
Página Siete: It is known by all that the Chapare of Cochabamba is fertile land for the drug trafficking business, and it is not, as the MAS boss says, a concept that stems from antipathy towards the coca growers in that area or from a mere anti-MAS sentiment. Last month, four drug factories were found…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 