El Dia: Estudio revela que Bolivia importa 200 toneladas de mercurio, 68 van a la minería aurífera Bolivia registra un incremento “exponencial” en la importación de 200 toneladas de mercurio totalmente “legal”, por la baja tasa arancelaria, de las cuales 68 toneladas van a la pequeña minería aurífera, un hecho que sucede a pesar de…
Tag: environmental damage
Drug trafficking & Luis Arce – Narcotráfico y Luchin
Editorial, El Deber: The fight against drug trafficking Four mega-factories of cocaine were found in a week by the Special Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (Felcn). Two of them in the heart of the Noel Kempff Mercado Park and two in the Isiboro Sécure National Park Indigenous Territory (Tipnis). Two protected areas that have been…
Illegal forest clearing and mining concessions – Desmontes y concesiones mineras ilegales
ANF, Los Tiempos: Protected areas face clearing and mining concessions, park rangers denounce Protected Areas face serious problems of clearing plans and “invasion” of mining concessions, with scarce economic resources, without sufficient personnel and with a general director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap) who has no commitment to these areas, but with…
Less land for the indigenous – Menos tierra para los indígenas
Luis Antezana, El Diario: Indigenous people own less land now than before The amount of land that peasants and indigenous people have is now less than what they owned before the application of the new agrarian legislation INRA, dictated by the government of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and prolonged in its validity by the Agrarian…
Government corruption – Corrupción gubernamental
Editorial, Página Siete: In high places as in the underworld It is not common for a minister to fall red-handed. In general, corruption in political spheres is white collar, difficult to track and with the use of straw owners, emissaries, third parties or bribery collectors. Not for that it is better. All corruption is harmful…
Bolivian lake becomes an arid, trash-covered wasteland
Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…
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