ABC, Reuters: Anteater rescued from wildfires ravaging protected areas in Bolivia Key points: Wildfires left around 14 hectares of terrain burnt across three different protected areas this week Annual forest fires in Bolivia have intensified in recent years Bolivia’s forests are home to jaguars, pumas, anteaters, night monkeys and countless other species Bolivian firefighters have rescued an anteater…
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Pilcomayo in peril | Pilcomayo en peligro
Editorial, Página Siete: Stop killing the Pilcomayo It is not new that the waste from Potosi mining, especially that practiced by cooperative members without any control or ecological awareness, is contaminating the Pilcomayo River, a source of life and food that runs through no more and no less than three countries: Bolivia , Argentina and…
Los Tiempos in peril | Los Tiempos en peligro
Editorial, Los Tiempos: We won’t bend Los Tiempos has established a clear position regarding the cunning and harmful campaign of economic suffocation that has been applied against it: it will not be bowed down. In other words, this newspaper is aware that the purpose of these attacks is to curtail the right to freedom of…
(In)dependence? – ¿(In)dependencia?
Ronald MacLean, Pagina Siete: The (In)dependence of Bolivia We have lost the Republic of Bolivia and in our bicentennial of 2025 we will no longer have independence to celebrate! Bolivia is today a political colony, a vassal State of the Russian-Cuban orbit together with Venezuela and Nicaragua; Ecuador has half managed to extricate itself, while…
Why are there encroachments? | ¿Por qué hay avasallamientos?
Luis Christian Rivas, El Diario: I maintain that there is encroachment and land trafficking because there is no legal certainty over them, because they are not individual private property, they belong to the State. Those lands belong to everyone and to no one, rather, they belong to the government of the day. The Political Constitution…
Forgetful, baseless optimism and glued to the rearview mirror | Olvidadizo, exitista y pegado al retrovisor
Editorial, Página Siete: President Luis Arce, in his speech for the national anniversary, compared his government to that of Jeanine Añez, whom he stopped calling a coup leader to describe it as “disastrous”; he highlighted “historical” economic figures of her management, but omitted the negative indicators of the economy; he denounced destabilization and did not…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 