Renzo Abruzzese, Los Tiempos: Until last week, the fires of the last two months have devastated more than 3.5 million hectares. The Government reports daily how many heat sources exist, but maintains a suspicious silence regarding the magnitude of the devastated hectares and their location. Something like this had not been seen before in our…
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Bolivia registers the highest environmental pollution | Bolivia registra la mayor contaminación ambiental
El Diario: Fire devastates national parks Large areas of protected areas were devastated by forest fires that affected fauna and flora in a catastrophic way. The uncontrollable fire that different regions endure places Bolivia as one of the countries with the greatest environmental pollution globally, due to the dense smoke caused by uncontrolled fires and…
Park rangers request an audience with Arce to report attacks, processes and extortion | Guardaparques piden audiencia con Arce para denunciar agresiones, procesos y extorsiones
Erbol, Correo del Sur: In the letter sent to the President they cite the case of two park rangers prosecuted for a criminal action brought about by a cooperative miner who was prevented from entering a protected area to exploit gold In a letter addressed to President Luis Arce, the park rangers of protected areas…
Miners intend to take over protected areas of the country | Mineros pretenden tomar áreas protegidas del país
El Diario: Given the announcement of mobilizations and blockades by mining cooperatives at the Government Headquarters, demanding attention to their petition, the deputy for the Creemos group, María Rene Álvarez, repudiated the destruction caused by gold mining and denounced that this sector intends to overwhelm indigenous territories and take protected areas. “It is proven that…
Miners seek green light for illegal mining – Mineros buscan luz verde para la minería ilegal
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…
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…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 