The former most powerful Bolivia authority in the fight against drugs and narcotrafficking will hear his sentence, in a Miami court today. Rene Sanabria is being prosecuted by Judge Ursula Ungaro (who prosecuted successfully Noriega some years back). American journalists who are experts in this subject, say that today there may not be other names that…
Month: September 2011
TIPNIS group deprived from water!! (see chart below)
Ruy D’Alencar, special envoy from El Deber reports: TIPNIS protest-walk group can not get water! it is not because it is far away… water can be found in Chaparina stream, twenty meters away from where they were stopped by the police! Yes, 20 meters!! and they can’t have it! The group is on the road for its…
Reduction of remittances to Bolivia from Spain, Argentina, USA et al
Remittances to Bolivia The Bolivian Foreign Commerce Institute (IBCE) has released its biweekly electronic bulletin Nº 63 – Bolivia, September 22, 2011. Remittances to Bolivia (overseas workers); Why did remittances were reduced? Between 2006 and 2011 (as of July), remittances to Bolivia from other countries totaled $4,810 million dollars; there was a growth in remittances…
Bolivian mining sector inefficiencies… Déjà vu?
After six years of current government, the Bolivian mining sector is experiencing the same inefficiencies as before 1985. Former vice-minister for Mining Policy, Gerardo Coro told Fides radio and now published in Pagina Siete that the reason of his removal was he alerted that the production cost in Huanuni is higher than the international price. Last Monday, the price…
TIPNIS’ stakeholders, part II
This cartoon is from El Dia (9/21/11), it reads “Oppressed Indigenous” the TIPNIS protest-walk group is surrounded by illegal loggers with chainsaw, high landers with dynamite, policemen with clubs and shields and coca growers with whips. This protests group is surrounded, deprived from water which is nearby and food supplies were not allowed to reach them. In…
About TIPNIS and coca leaf production, a theory appears…
Aside of the protest walk of the TIPNIS that is entering its second month, there is another issue that may be related to such road passing through this National Park: coca leaf production is said to exhaust the nutrients of the soil where it’s grown. An initial thought is that coca growers in the Chapare…
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