Pagina Siete reports on Bolivian government next actions with the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB, JIFE in Spanish). [INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. It had predecessors under…
Month: December 2011
IBCE’s findings regarding ANB’s performance
The Bolivian Foreign Trade Institute (IBCE) was kind to share with Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World a recent perception survey regarding the performance of the Bolivian National Customs (ANB) institution, press release IBCE E-1401/2011. Follows, the summary of the findings: (1) Overall performance of the ANB during 2011: in relation to this survey, a…
Can some humans learn from earlier mistakes?
This cartoon is from El Diario, December 29, 2011. It shows current Bolivian president trying to swim against the current of blockades that will more likely restart around mid January 2012. It is assumed that humans, unlike other species, learn, adapt, evolve when confronted with reality. This political party in power is either a very slow…
In Bolivia, Serving a Prior Government Can Make You a Political Prisoner
In Bolivia, Serving a Prior Government Can Make You a Political Prisoner Dec 29, 2011 4:45 AM EST. Article written by Mac Margolis, (www.thedailybeast.com) In Evo Morales’s vaunted new democracy, the government retrofits lawful acts of the recent past to make them crimes of corruption that ensnare officials whose main offense is having served an…
If traveling across Bolivia, PLS watch out from dengue!!
Pagina Siete reports today about dengue, please take precautions: [The graph shows in orange and red the frequency of cases reported.] Residents of 20 municipalities close to the road that links La Paz with Cochabamba and Santa Cruz are the most affected by dengue. They consider that the vector is incubated in the river and tributaries…
Bolivia’s breakthrough on traditional medicine
El Deber posted this news on its website, yesterday afternoon (picture below obtained from the internet): A “Hepato-biliary syrup”, made with Andean plant extract, became the first drug registered as legal by the Bolivian Ministry of Health which, as explained this Wednesday, the authorization to go ahead was made in order to rescue traditional medicine….
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