Editorial, Los Tiempos: “We are burning” The fire is devastating the territories of five national parks and other unprotected areas, there are so many that the smoke from the fires reaches the cities, obscuring the sky, while the Government’s response to this catastrophe that it does not want to recognize is minuscule compared to the…
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You’re liberal and you don’t know it | A que eres liberal y no lo sabes
Jaime Dunn, Brujula Digital: Sometimes labels scare us. They refer us to heated debates, complex ideologies and philosophies. But let me pose a surprising idea: day after day, in the choices you make, from the most trivial to the most consequential, you are practicing liberalism and you probably don’t even realize it. Before you skip…
Bolivian liberal movement takes a shared bath for renewal with a view to 2025 | Movimiento liberal boliviano se da baño, compartido, de renovación con miras al 2025
By Fernando Rollano, Free Thinker: Gathering nearly three hundred adherents and participants who filled the event hall in the western area of the city of Santa Cruz and calling for fifteen intellectuals and guest speakers, representatives of the Bolivian liberal movement organized a few days ago a full agenda day called MEETING FOR FREEDOM, as…
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…
Record levels in deforestation | Niveles récord de deforestación
Jonathan Reynolds, Mongabay: Why has deforestation reached record levels in Bolivia? (commentary) In both national and multilateral fora, Bolivia is increasingly showing its reluctance to curb deforestation. President Luis Arce, soon to be entering the penultimate year of his term, has built up a poor environmental record, supporting the unbridled growth of a largely extractive economy,…
How long will we have to put up with Luis Arce’s speeches? | ¿Hasta cuándo tendremos que aguantar los discursos de Luis Arce?
Antonio Saravia, Brujula Digital: Luis Arce’s speech this past Wednesday, November 8, confirms that the president lives on another planet. Nothing he said in his hour-long rant even remotely resembles the reality that Bolivians face every day. The president insists that “we are on the right track” when shortages, queues, lack of dollars, informality and…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 