Rocío Lloret Céspedes

Editor in chief of La Región (Bolivia). She collaborates with different media in Latin America and Europe.

A truckload of sugar cane outside a factory in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Bolivia’s biodiesel play: economic sense or another Amazon threat?

With the arrival of palm oil, large state investment in biofuel production triggers debate on possible impacts on forests and communities

Bolivia

Understanding Bolivia’s struggles to exploit its lithium reserves

Home to some of the world’s largest reserves, Bolivia wants to accelerate lithium industrialisation after decades of stalling

Bolivia

With its gas in decline, Bolivia faces an involuntary energy transition

In 2014, Bolivia’s government launched plans to produce 75% of electricity with non-fossil sources by 2025. As gas reserves dwindle, it has little choice but to rollout renewables

Bolivia

A controversial road crosses one of the world’s best-preserved biomes

A road expansion project in the Chiquitano dry forests of Bolivia will also affect indigenous communities, who question its costs and benefits

Ese Ejja Bolívia mercúrio peixe contaminação China

Bolivia

Why must Bolivia’s Ese ejja communities stop eating fish?

Women in two Amazonian villages have high levels of mercury in their blood and are advised to remove fish from their diets. But the state is not addressing the root causes of the problem – mining

Rocío Lloret Céspedes

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