In this Los Tiempos article, Manfreddo Kempff Suarez discusses the disturbing news that 18 officials/directors of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap) have been replaced. “Teodoro Mamani, current director of Sernap, is known for not having the slightest environmentalist idea, but who has made a career in the MAS, as the second person in the Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia. And the head of the Bolivian Association of Conservation Agents (Abolac), Santos Mamani, is also identified as being close to Masism. In Madidi Park the new director is the daughter of the former candidate for Mayor of San Buenaventura.”