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The Morales critics within Bolivia’s indigenous community
TRT World reports: The former Bolivian president is credited with lifting many out of poverty and for spurring economic growth, but some in the indigenous community believe his legacy is not as rose-tinted as is portrayed. When former president Evo Morales won the 2005 election, he became Bolivia’s first indigenous president from the Aymara community,…
Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia (commentary)
Claire Wordley comments in Mongabay: Firefighters in Bolivia are tackling conflagrations that have burned an area larger than Costa Rica. Several national parks and Indigenous territories have been affected. Many Indigenous and civil society groups are calling for an end to laws that allow burning. I spoke to ecologists and biologists about what is being…
‘Everything is burned’: Bolivian caravan marches across fire-ravaged region to pressure Morales
Santiago Limachi, David Mercado report for Reuters: CHIQUITANO FOREST, Bolivia (Reuters) – In Bolivia’s fire-ravaged lowlands, a caravan of indigenous protesters is marching hundreds of miles to demand President Evo Morales declare a surge in wildfires a national disaster, a move they hope will unleash international aid. People march during the 10th Indigenous March to defend…
EVO MORALES’ ECOCIDE IS A GENOCIDE
Manuela Picq reports for Intercontinental Cry: The bolivian lowlands have been burning for over a month. Over 4 million hectares of biodiverse forests has already burned to ash–an area larger than Switzerland. Uncontrolled, the fires continue to spread across protected areas and Indigenous territories, provoking an incommensurable loss of life. The tragedy is increasingly referred to as…
Disaster strikes in Bolivia as fires lay waste to unique forests
This story is a journalistic collaboration between Mongabay’s Latin America (Latam) team and the Bolivian newspaper Página Siete by Carolina Méndez, Isabel Mercado on 6 September 2019 | Translated by Romina Castagnino Fires are raging in Bolivia, hitting particularly hard the Chiquitano dry forests of the country’s southern Santa Cruz region. Officials say the fires are largely the result of intentional burning…
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