Diego Seas, El Deber: The event was recorded this Thursday, when the team of journalists was carrying out their work in the encroached property Almost at noon this Thursday, a press team from the Bolivisión network was detained and intimidated by a group of hooded thugs who had taken over the El Encanto property and…
Tag: illegal land take overs
What are you waiting for, President, to stop the violence? – ¿Qué espera, presidente para frenar la violencia?
Editorial, El Deber: Impotence and helplessness in Santa Cruz. The encroachments on land reach intolerable extremes, in the face of the indifferent gaze of the national government, the Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The images of yesterday’s confrontation are horrifying, because they leave evidence that these people who want to take possession of others…
Deforestation, drug trafficking and land seizure | Deforestación, narcotráfico y toma de tierras
Mauricio Quiroz Terán, El Deber: 83% OF THE AFFECTED AREAS ARE IN SANTA CRUZ Deforestation is accelerating and they see the hand of drug trafficking in the land grab Felcn agents and businessmen affirm that there are “territorial enclaves” in Guarayos and Bajo Paraguá in San Ignacio de Velasco. A report from Fundación Tierra indicates…
Blue-bearded Macaw – Paraba Barba Azul
Rocio Lloret, Página Siete: The Blue-bearded Macaw scores a win over an illegal settlement in its habitat A group entered the private reserve dedicated to the conservation of the species that is only in Bolivia and is in critical danger of extinction. INRA ordered the eviction. The Barba Azul Nature Reserve is like an island…
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…
The country and protected subjugations | El país y los avasallamientos protegidos
Editorial, El Diario: A gunshot wound and 8 peasants kidnapped in the surroundings of La Pailas, in Santa Cruz, is the result of the subjugation of last July 27. Criminal act at the head of the famous oppressors Paulino Camacho and Sixto Canasa, the same ones who, arrested for the Las Londras attacks in October…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 