Editorial, El Diario: Order of the day: encroaching It is well known that in the 14 years of government of Mr. Evo Morales, one of his priority plans was the transfer of indigenous groups from the west to the east, starting with Pando. The objective of the plan was electoral –so it cannot be called…
Tag: illegal land take overs
‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas
by Yvette Sierra Praeli on 7 January 2022 | Translated by Sydney Sims, Mongabay: In the first 10 months of 2021, forest fires in Bolivia razed nearly 2.5 million hectares (6.2 million acres) in the department of Santa Cruz alone, exceeding the figure for the whole of 2020. In Santa Cruz, Bolivia’s biggest department, 58% of the burned…
Forests for Sale: How Land Traffickers Profit by Slicing up Bolivia’s Protected Areas
by Eduardo Franco Berton Shortly after Bolivia’s Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Area was established in February 2021, authorities began receiving reports of invasions and deforestation in and around the new protected area. Local sources say land traffickers are illegally buying up plots of protected land to resell, often repeatedly, to third parties. Mongabay spoke with one…
MAS: Fomenta la violencia – Encourages violence
Editorial, Pagina Siete: Permissiveness towards the armed group The armed group that operates in San Julián and Guarayos acted violently for the second time in less than a month, this time against police and prosecutors who tried to execute the arrest warrants against the main defendants in the kidnapping of a group of journalists, in…
Discriminador y racista – Luchin – Discriminator and racist
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Blatant discrimination On Sunday, in Santa Cruz, the President of the State accused “the right” of exercising discrimination and racism against the most humble, while in the same city, in another place, dozens of indigenous people from the lowlands have been waiting for 54 days the attention of the Government to raise…
Indigenous groups call for gov’t intervention as land grabbers invade Bolivian protected area
Iván Paredes Tamayo on 12 November 2021 | Translated by Sarah Engel, Mongabay: Bajo Paraguá – San Ignacio de Velasco Municipal Protected Area was created on February 12, 2021, to protect 983,000 hectares (about 2,429,045 acres) of primary forest in the Chiquitania region of Bolivia. But despite its new protected status, residents are reporting invasions and human…
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