Truth hurts and this striking Editorial from El Diario defines it clearly: The government, long before imposing the payment of the “double Christmas bonus” that already was fulfilled in several years, has full knowledge of the algid situation of the companies of the country; knows that most of them face situations of financial failure, that…
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Drying Peatlands in the Bolivian Andes Threaten Indigenous Pastoral Communities
Maria Dombrov reports for Glacier Hub: The Andes are the longest mountain range in the world, stretching 4,500 miles long and spanning seven South American countries: Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Andean ecosystems include peatlands, grasslands, shrublands, salt flats, forests, and alpine regions. Mountain peatlands, or bofedales, play a particularly central role in the rearing…
Unconstitutionality in the Law of Social Enterprises
El Diario reports: Private entrepreneurs demand for: The sector points out that the regulation allows the appropriation of private goods “Contains several provisions violating human rights, guarantees and constitutional principles, such as equality and non-discrimination, protection of private property, freedom of enterprise, free association, circulation, guarantee of due process, right to defense, principle of contestation…
Energy, gas, gasoline and water will remain subsidized [evo misleads and lies big time!]
El Diario reports, pertaining photo was captured from the internet: Three economists questioned official policy Vice President Álvaro García Linera said yesterday that the prices of gas, gasoline, water and basic services will not rise, as some opposition politicians and analysts have suggested. In an evaluation of the achievements of the Bolivian economy, he said…
The woman breaking Bolivia’s culture of silence on rape
Dan Collyns reports for The Guardian: Raped at the age of 15, Brisa De Angulo has devoted her life to the pursuit of justice for herself and fellow survivors of sexual abuse. In the process, she has survived several attempts on her life and influenced crucial changes to the law Brisa De Angulo was 15…
China aspires to world leadership … failing big time with this atrocious and barbaric “preferences”
El Diario reports: Environmental activists Conviction for killing jaguars is insufficient Chinese citizens who sold skins and fangs of jaguars from Bolivia were sentenced to four and three years in prison. The sentence of four and three years of imprisonment for the couple of Chinese citizens, traffickers of jaguar fangs and other pieces of wild…
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