- Environment: illegal incursions by cocalero settlers continue to damage the pristine area of the TIPNIS (Isiboro Secure park, border between Cochabamba/Chapare and Beni departments. The plan to build a road that cuts this reserve in half is well underway.
- New identification documents: government officials are sending mixed signals regarding new number system or keeping the old. Uncertainty continues. They also started suggesting that profession and marital status will be taken out of new ID.
- Ruben Costas, governor of Santa Cruz. Shot in the head by thieves last month, to date there is no real progress in the pursuit of arresting that murdering criminal. One individual was captured but later on, released.
- Police: the car that had “cloned” licensed plate that caused the removal of senior policemen, continues to expose corruption among that institution. Today, reports of using a Chilean license plate was released.
- Hydrocarbons: State owned main company (YPFB) has not been able to attract investors for their so-long-needed exploration fields for new oil and/or natural gas reserves.
- Legislative Assembly in Santa Cruz: the newly created indigenous group representation was sworn in (yuracaré-moxeña); Alcides Villagómez, President of that Assembly remains in custody while in the hospital recovering from a heart condition. Ruben Costas, Governor’s group (verdes) lost an alliance with MNR, political party. There are three groups that are trying to capture this presidency: the current political party in government, the “verdes” and the indigenous groups.
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