Julieta Pelcastre, DialogoAmericas: Quechua women walk in the outskirts of Potosí on June 24, 2014. The China Railway Group Limited will begin construction of a highway to link Potosí to Cochabamba in 2023, a project that may threaten nature and several archeological zones. | Mujeres quechuas caminan en las afueras de Potosí el 24 de…
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Local narratives – Chaco – Narrativas locales
Jessica Peñaloza Cladera, Translated byTeodora C. Hasegan, Global Voices: Creating new, local narratives on climate change in the Bolivian Chaco Young Indigenous journalists propose more representative coverage on climate change The group of workshop participants in Charagua. Photo by Jessica Peñaloza for Rising Voices. When the Bolivian media covers climate change in the Gran Chaco…
Pachamama: An oxymoron? | ¿Un oxímoron?
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…
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…
The strike ends and the”arrogance” of the gov persists | Termina el paro y “la arrogancia” del gob persiste
Tanya Imaña, El Deber: The strike ends and they say that if the government’s “arrogance” persists, new pressure measures for the census will be defined on Thursday This was announced at a meeting of the Interinstitutional Committee held at the UAGRM The Inter-institutional Committee, in its evaluation of this Monday’s strike, announces that after the…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 