Pagina Siete sadly reports: Bolivia, among the 10 countries that deforest more With the 2025 Patriotic Agenda and its elevation to the rank of law, it is planned to reach 13 million hectares of arable land by 2025 and expand agricultural production to 45 million tons, according to the e-portal of the Center for Research…
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Bolivian democracy in peril, evo needs to finish his term and leave!
Relentlessly the coca grower caudillo advocates to remain in power ad-infinitum, and that is corruption! The following cartoons are from today’s newspapers (10/11/2017): From Pagina Siete: Yesterday we celebrated 35 years of democracy in Bolivia. Thousands of people gathered in main plazas nationwide and repudiated the intention of evo to remain…
This Government has not only showed corruption levels but ineptness as well: keeps maintaining export quotas!
Mauricio Vasquez reports for El Deber: The Government defines at the end of the month whether it allows exports of sugar 20 days after the end of the harvest, Cruceño sugar mills have produced 9.7 million quintals of the product. The figure is 1.2 million quintals greater than that demanded by the domestic market. “We…
Bolivia’s Leftist Government Moves against Free Speech with “Professional Malpractice” Law
Karina Martin reports for PanAm Post: Bolivia’s Leftist Government Moves against Free Speech with “Professional Malpractice” Law Bolivia has drafted a law that would allow journalists to be tried for “professional malpractice,” which the country’s National Associated Press has subsequently denounced as threatening freedom of expression. President of the Senate José Alberto Gonzales said the change…
In Bolivia, when the water dries up, so does the economy
Glen Argan reports for National Catholic Reporter: In Bolivia, when the water dries up, so does the economy An abandoned boat lies several hundred feet from the shore of Lake Poopo in late August, testimony to the disappearance of the lake and the salt flats that remain in Llapallapani, Bolivia. Lake Poopo dried up three…
The World must know: Rejection of intention to re-nominate Evo Morales
El Diario reports: Rejection of intention to re-nominate Evo Morales After the presentation of an abstract action before the Constitutional Court, on the part of the Movement to Socialism [MAS], analysts and constitutionalist argue that this body has no power to declare unconstitutional the articles of the Political Constitution of the State. In addition, organizations…
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