El Diario reports: Concerns of representatives MAS extractivist policy threatens indigenous people and ecosystems Indigenous people raise responsibility lawsuits against Evo Morales and his collaborators for biocide and ethnocide, they do not rule out going to international instances to denounce those abuses The extension of the agricultural frontier, the exploration of hydrocarbons and minerals in…
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With forest wildfires raging, Bolivia seeks help from SuperTanker plane
UPDATE 9:30 Fri Aug 23, 2019: evo has a tv spot announcing he made this tanker possible, he is in permanent campaign, the illegitimate and impossible candidate, rejected in the Referendum of 2/21/2016. This photo shows the tanker while there is a a long line of trucks with water … and the plane arrived at…
How evo is now perceived by the world’s socialist community …
Bolivian Thoughts Opinion: They usually tend to amaze me, I’m talking about the self-labelled socialists that pullulate our world … during the 90’s they were mostly known as the watermelons … red inside and green on the outside, as they intended to reinvent themselves as their “logic and theory” became impractical, while environmental issues were…
500 species at risk due to fire in the Chiquitano Forest
AFP reports via El Deber: The flames have consumed more than 471,000 hectares in the department of Santa Cruz. Environmentalists warn of the serious risk to the variety of ecosystems that coexist in this natural reserve. Almost 500,000 hectares of the Chiquitano Forest were lost in the forest fire that still affects the reserve. Photo:…
PolitiFact taught fact-checking skills to Bolivian journalists. Here’s how it went.
Daniel Funke and Susan Benkelman write for Poynter: Teaching fact-checking in Bolivia One of the greatest strengths of the fact-checking community is its commitment to collaboration and knowledge-sharing across borders. Such was the case last week when Miriam Valverde, a fact-checker covering immigration for (Poynter-owned) PolitiFact (and Daniel’s colleague), traveled to La Paz, Bolivia, to teach fact-checking…
evo promotes bullying instead of debate of ideas, what a lousy jerk!
El Diario reports: In Potosí Mesa denounces “bullying” of the MAS CARLOS MESA, CITIZEN COMMUNITY CANDIDATE WAS THE LAST DAYS IN POTOSÍ. Carlos Mesa denounced yesterday that a group of clash of militants of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) committed provocations, in the style of bullying, against followers of the Citizen Community (CC) in the…
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