Slash-and-burn practices are a threat to public health, and a health alert should be declared | Los chaqueos son un atentado a la salud pública, se debe declarar alerta sanitaria

By Brujula Digital, El Diario: The Bolivian Society of Pneumology has proposed declaring a health alert due to the environmental pollution present in several cities, caused by forest fires and “chaqueos” (slash-and-burn practices). In a statement, the organization labeled the chaqueos as “an attack on public health” and demanded that those responsible “be sanctioned according…

Santa Cruz’s Civic Assembly rejects Census results and calls for a departmental strike this Friday | Asamblea de la Cruceñidad rechaza resultados del Censo y convoca a paro departamental este viernes

Brújula Digital: The Assembly of Cruceñidad. Photo: Video Capture The Assembly of Cruceñidad rejected the results of the Population and Housing Census and announced a 24-hour departmental civic strike for this Friday, September 6, as a protest against what they consider a census fraud promoted by the central government. At the meeting held this Tuesday,…

MAS: Gang of corrupt, inept, and racist individuals who have lost their direction | Juntucha de corruptos, ineptos y racistas que ha perdido el horizonte

By Renzo Abruzzese, El Deber: In Freefall Public perception is unanimous: the country is at its worst. The economic crisis, governmental ineptitude, political unrest, and a deep sense that the paths Bolivia had built throughout its republican history are now obliterated, all combine to cast a shadow over the national spirit. It seems the failed…