Luis Escobar, Página Siete: THE SECOND MOST AFFECTED AREA IS THE CENTER WITH 59 MICROGRAMS The tribute to the Pachamama leaves more pollution than San Juan in Villa Fátima The Air Quality Monitoring Network (Red MoniCA) detected that on the last day of August the area of Villa Fátima and the entire eastern slope of…
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Madidi: Illegal mining – Mineria ilegal
El Diario: Illegal mining in Parque Madidi is an undeniable issue The result of the Popular Action demanding an ecological pause in the territory of the Madidi National Park has not yet been defined. The tie between two members will be defined by a third party. After the judicial decision to postpone the ruling related…
Pilcomayo in peril | Pilcomayo en peligro
Editorial, Página Siete: Stop killing the Pilcomayo It is not new that the waste from Potosi mining, especially that practiced by cooperative members without any control or ecological awareness, is contaminating the Pilcomayo River, a source of life and food that runs through no more and no less than three countries: Bolivia , Argentina and…
Bolivia: Without plan due to uncontrolled use of mercury | Sin plan ante uso descontrolado de mercurio
El Diario: The UN rapporteur, Marco Orellana, expressed concern about the little effort to prevent the use of the chemical in mining that affects the country’s indigenous peoples. Likewise, he said that the trafficking of mercury from Bolivia to the countries of the region frustrates international efforts to eliminate its use in the extraction of…
Tailings dam wall collapses | Dique de colas colapsa
El Potosi, Correo del Sur: Técnicos de la Gobernación potosina realizan el monitoreo de las aguas en el río Tarapaya, antes de que llegue a territorio chuquisaqueño. | Technicians from the Potosi Government carry out water monitoring in the Tarapaya River, before it reaches Chuquisaca territory. | GENTILEZA Tailings dam wall collapses in Potosí and…
Dismissed for denouncing illegal gold exploitation | Destituida por denunciar explotación ilegal de oro
ANF, Página Siete: Santos Quispe dismisses the deputy governor who denounced illegal gold exploitation The former authority considered that her dismissal was due to her strong defense of natural reserves, in the face of mining depredation in the north of La Paz. “For denouncing illegal mining, they fired me,” said Genoveva Espinoza, who yesterday was…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 