ANF, El Diario: Experts warn The massive march of the miners affiliated with the National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia (Fencomin) should not be an excuse to negotiate the natural heritage or to ask for the green light in illegal mining exploitation, maintain the director of the Bolivian Documentation and Information Center (Cedib), Óscar…
Tag: illegal land take overs
Lands, hardship and chaos | Tierras, penuria y caos
Editorial, Los Tiempos: In addition to violating property rights, the encroachment on land threatens the food security of Bolivians and constitutes a pressure factor for chaotic urban growth, thus making impossible the planning and land use regulations established by law. In effect, these criminal actions perpetrated —often with violence— by organized groups have been more…
¿Existe una correlación entre el narcotráfico y el avasallamiento? – Is there a correlation between narcotrafficking and encroachment?
El vínculo entre el avance de la frontera agrícola y el narcotráfico en Bolivia existe, especialmente en regiones donde se cultiva la coca para la producción de cocaína. El cultivo de coca conduce a la deforestación de áreas boscosas y la ocupación de tierras protegidas. Los narcotraficantes establecen plantaciones clandestinas de coca en áreas remotas,…
What to do: support legality or illegality? | ¿Qué hacer: respaldar la legalidad o la ilegalidad?
Humberto Vacaflor, El Diario: The dilemmas of the MAS The Government stumbles upon dilemmas that, by resolving them, designs its ideology, its tendency, which allows Bolivians to have an idea of the thought of the MAS, other than its rude propaganda messages. These days the dilemma was called Santagro. There, in Guarayos, a farm in…
Chinese companies entered to loot gold and more than 100 protected areas were auctioned | Empresas chinas ingresaron a saquear oro y se subastaron más de 100 áreas protegidas
El Diario: El representante de la Contiocap, Álex Villca. Asserts indigenous leader Álex Villca In response to the President, Luis Arce Catacora, who affirmed that sovereignty over natural resources was recovered during the Plurinational State, the indigenous leader Álex Villa rejected the official discourse and denounced that it was from the new Political Constitution of…
Environmental damage caused by encroachers – Daño medioambiental producido por avasalladores
Lourdes Molina, El Deber: Justice prohibits settlement in the Lomas de Arena aquifer and recognizes the environmental damage caused by the encroachers Representatives of the Departmental Legislative Assembly (ALD) revealed that by constitutional means they granted protection of rights to the environment and water, within the framework of the class action filed The Departmental Legislative…
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