Alvaro Rosales reports for El Deber: ECONOMY In the last 6 years more than 3000 production units have been closed between micro, small, medium and large, more than 25,000 workers have been fired, they fear that the situation will worsen The forestry industry works within the framework of sustainability and its actors see a gray…
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A journey into the Amazon Jaguar black market
From The Brazilian Report, excerpts pertaining Bolivia follow: By Eduardo Franco Berton: At first glance, Li Ming and his wife Yin Lan look like two ordinary Chinese citizens. Sat on a bench, they greet the relatives who have come to visit them with warm, kind smiles. It’s lunchtime. One of the visitors approaches…
Traffic destroys wildlife in Bolivia
El Diario reports: Animals abandoned to their fate • Chinese citizens promote the killing of species in the country, offering money to local people in exchange for jaguar tusks and other parts • Senator Yerko Núñez said that out of more than 100 complaints only two are sentenced and regretted for the little control exercised…
Bolivia flunks big time! Fires: 3,366 hot spots were detected
Valeria Endara reports for El Dia: Only in this month Report. Only between Saturday and Sunday were detected 676 red dots. The municipality of San José is the most affected. Due to the fires that are registered in the department, a slight smoke reached the capital of Santa Cruz. According to the Report of the…
Chepete and El Bala dams outline evo’s character: he is NOT pro environment NOR indigenous rights!
From the Ecologist: Development and duplicity in the case of the Chepete and El Bala dams Two proposed hydroelectric dams in Bolivia are set to create a serious socio-ecological calamity. They are emblematic of the injustices that have been a consistent feature of the Morales government. JONATHAN ELWELL investigates The decades-old developmental fantasy of using…
The Bolivian mountain that eats miners
The Rich Mountain of Potosi (Cerro Rico) has been an enormous source of wealth. An old say, worldwide: “It is worth a Potosi” (Vale un Potosi) summarizes its world class! Potosi was larger than New York, had electricity before Paris … and yet … we rad below the sad, real life that those miners had…
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