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…
Tag: illegal land take overs
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…
They denounce that an armed group has already invaded 8,500 hectares in Guarayos | Denuncian que grupo armado ya invadió 8.500 hectáreas en Guarayos
Ernesto Estremadoiro, El Deber: Until now, the Police have not evicted the invaders who intend to seize 26,500 hectares in the Guarayos province. The lands were declared fiscally unavailable by INRA. They have already displaced the inhabitants of five communities The same group that invaded lands in Las Londras and kidnapped a group of journalists…
Natural parks, land of drugs | Parques naturales, tierra de drogas
Editorial, El Deber: The national parks of Bolivia are abandoned, the State does not take care of them and, as a natural consequence, drug traffickers appropriate them to install their cocaine factories there, when the settlers are not the ones who arrive first to occupy land, to clear and settle illegally with the help of…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 