Indigenous Bolivians flee homes as backlash to mining protest turns explosive by Maxwell Radwin, Mongabay: Environmental activists in Bolivia say they’ve become the targets of discrimination, death threats and even bombings after speaking out against harmful mining operations in the department of Oruro. The activists, most of them women, have faced escalating violence this year because…
Tag: indigenous rights
Growing concern for environmental defenders | Crece preocupación por defensores ambientales
El Diario: The People’s Defender backed the UN Special Rapporteur A judge in Oruro rejected the action brought by indigenous people from Totoral Chico. While the People’s Defender joined the concern of the United Nations Rapporteur regarding the persecution of environmental rights defenders in Bolivia, this Thursday, in Oruro, Judge Odal Herrera, acting as a…
They ask for international support for the rights of indigenous peoples | Piden apoyo internacional por derechos de pueblos indígenas
El Diario: The representative for Creemos, María René Álvarez, announced that she had sent eight notes to different United Nations rapporteurs to advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples and to denounce the forest fires that this year totaled 3.3 million hectares burned in national territory. During an interview with the international network CNN, Álvarez…
Actual administración de justicia | 101 | Current administration of justice
ANF, El Diario: They warn of an “almost criminal and impunity” structure in the administration of justice The vice president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Yolanda Herrera, asserted that in the entire area of Bolivian justice there is an “almost criminal” structure that violates human rights, where officials are not…
Indigenous genocide | Genocidio de indígenas
Humberto Vacaflor Ganam, El Diario: Every day about a hundred Chinese arrive in Bolivia, according to evidence at the Santa Cruz airport, sent for unknown political or economic purposes, but they are here to stay. Perhaps they are escaping from the economic crisis that the Chinese dragon is experiencing or perhaps they are sent to…
La exploración de petróleo y gas amenaza el suministro de agua del Chaco boliviano | Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply
Mongabay y El Deber: por Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes el 24 de Agosto 2023 | Traducido por Sydney Sims El Parque Nacional Aguaragüe, ubicado al sur de Bolivia, sufre la explotación de hidrocarburos, que se realiza en esta región desde hace más de 100 años. Los suelos y las fuentes de agua del parque se están contaminando…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 