Bolivian

Bolivian Senate head assumes interim presidency 0
- BUSINESS
- November 13, 2019
The head of Bolivia’s Senate, Jeanine Anez, took office as interim president on Tuesday as former leader Evo Morales pledged to keep up his political “fight” from exile in Mexico after resigning in what he has alleged was a coup. Anez, 52, assumed leadership before other lawmakers in Congress, invoking a constitutional clause that dictates
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It’s not just Brazil’s Amazon rainforest that’s ablaze – Bolivian fires are threatening people and wildlife 0
- BUSINESS
- August 25, 2019
Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That’s more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years. Experts say that it will take at least two centuries to repair the ecological damage done by the fires, while
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