by Eduardo Franco Berton Shortly after Bolivia’s Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Area was established in February 2021, authorities began receiving reports of invasions and deforestation in and around the new protected area. Local sources say land traffickers are illegally buying up plots of protected land to resell, often repeatedly, to third parties. Mongabay spoke with one…
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2021: Bolivia’s Index of Economic Freedom
Bolivia’s economic freedom score is 42.7, making its economy the 172nd freest in the 2021 Index. Its overall score has decreased by 0.1 point, primarily because of a decline in trade freedom. Bolivia is ranked 30th among 32 countries in the Americas region, and its overall score is below the regional and world averages. [para…
Priorities – SERNAP – Prioridades
Los Tiempos: Director of Sernap gave Christmas-baskets to those related to MAS, but does not give working outfits to park rangers The Executive Director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap), Teodoro Mamani Ibarra delivered Christmas baskets to the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Csutcb). Despite the fact that the…
Carreteras cerradas por lluvia – Roads closed due to rain
Pagina Siete: Five roads in three regions are closed due to the rains The Bolivian Highway Administration (ABC) reported on the closure of three sections in the department of Beni, a fourth in the north of La Paz and the fifth in Santa Cruz. In Beni, the sections closed are: the Santo Domingo-Monte Grande highway,…
Mercury has catastrophic consequences on Bolivian indigenous peoples, UN experts say
Merco Press [For Spanish version Pagina Siete]: United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has brought up environmental and human rights consequences, it was reported Wednesday. UN rapporteurs Marcos Orellana (toxic substances and human rights) and José Francisco Cali…
Uno que desprecia la libertad de prensa, no respeta nuestro Orgullo y Símbolos Nacionales – One that despises the freedom of the press, disrespects our National Pride and Symbols
ANP, El Diario: Coopman beat the director of El Potosí ANP expresses strong protest The miner Víctor Flores attacked the journalist Juan José Toro in a popular market in Villa Imperial Potosí (ANP). – The National Press Association (ANP) yesterday expressed its energetic protest at the second attack suffered by the content director of the…
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