Editorial, Los Tiempos: Winter ends and hot spots, forest fires and grass fires multiply. This year, exceptionally, Santa Cruz is not the department most affected by the devastating fires that are now more numerous in Beni, Cochabamba and La Paz. The last official report yesterday on satellite monitoring of hot spots in the country, registered…
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Drug trafficking and illegal logging | Narcotráfico y la tala ilegal
Ivan Paredes, El Deber: The Bolivian Amazon under attack: drug trafficking and illegal logging penetrate the area An investigation shows how gangs dedicated to the extraction of wood operate in the Amazon basin. Bolivia and Ecuador are the most affected by this crime. Behind them are the drug trafficking mafias that use the same routes….
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…
Land Trafficking Fuels Constant Corruption in Bolivia
InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
Who governs Bolivia? – ¿Quién gobierna Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: La Chiquitania on the way to becoming another Chapare The Chiquitania is at risk. The protected area of Bajo Paraguá, which belongs to the municipality of San Ignacio de Velasco, has been crossed by clearings, trails and gaps, one of them 8 kilometers long and 12 meters wide, and in the area…
MAS groups attack police in the Chapare – Grupos del MAS agreden a policías en el Chapare
Jesus Alanoca reports for El Deber: Government accuses Evo and MAS groups of being behind the attacks on police in the Chapare Minister Murillo anticipates legal actions against cocalero leaders and even municipal authorities. The Minister of Defense indicates that joint operations will be carried out with the Armed Forces They reject the humiliation to…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 