El Diario: In the name of poverty, they enter municipal sites. These groups exert violence as a method of intimidation “The bullies are the ones who destroy, generate public insecurity, there are armed groups, here (La Paz) there are mafia groups that intimidate the neighbors, threaten them, beat them, the bullies have become a national…
Tag: illegal land take overs
Estado, tierras y violencia – State, land and violence
Editorial, Los Tiempos: What happened on Thursday in a rural area of Guarayos, Santa Cruz, is surprising due to the violence with which an irregular armed group took 17 people hostage and tortured them for seven hours, and is extremely concerned because similar events had already occurred recently. more than a month in the same…
Grupos armados en Bolivia – Armed groups in Bolivia
Editorial, Página Siete: In a report published on September 26 of this year, Página Siete warned that in the Guarayos province of Santa Cruz, there are armed groups that intend to settle on community lands and even on productive properties already titled. On that occasion, a council had given 10 days for its dismantling because,…
Distribución individual de la tierra – Individual land distribution
Pagina Siete: Anapo proposes individual land distribution The National Association of Oilseed Producers (Anapo) asked the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) to act with the eviction of overwhelming people in productive properties and suggests that the land be distributed not only to communities, but also individually. The president of Anapo, Fidel Flores, read a statement…
Hectáreas quemadas – 2021 – Burned hectares
ANF, Los Tiempos: FAN quantifies the area burned by fires in 8 months at 1.5 million hectares The Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) quantified in more than 1.5 million hectares the areas burned by the fires in the nine regions of the country, from January to August of this year. To perform the quantification, Sentinel-2…
¡Es una invasión, llamada colonización! – It is an invasion, called colonization!
Manfredo Kempff, El Deber: ¿Guerra por el territorio? Los masistas provocaron la “guerra del agua” el año 2000, la “guerra del gas” el 2003, y ahora van en busca de la “guerra por la tierra”, porque al parecer les conviene políticamente. Todo lo que significa convulsión y violencia es algo que le interesa a Evo…
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