During the upcoming carnival weekend, people who live in or visit Bolivia must take precautions. Unfortunately, we have been experiencing an upward trend in violence and crime. Use taxi cabs that your friends or hotels locally recommend; do not engage in useless arguments that can turn ugly and keep an eye on your belongings at…
Month: February 2012
Bolivian pride: Bernardo Siles, a recognition by The Washington Post
Everyday I found out news of a successful Bolivian, my day improves; it is hard to keep up with the good spirits when we undergo current political and economical events. So, I wanted to start this week with something positive, this collage is from The Washington Post and Bernardo’s photo is from La Prensa’s article…
Bolivian’s cocaine industry under the analysis of the Wall Street Journal
This is an excellent article, well written by John Lyons; it reveals how Bolivia has been captured by the worst imaginable nightmare, follows excerpts from this article, portions that pertain to Bolivian reality: Cocaine: The New Front Lines by JOHN LYONS, The Wall Street Journal In the dusty town of Villa Tunari in Bolivia‘s tropical coca-growing…
TIPNIS: …and the charade is complete! and we are not even in carnival, yet…
The damage to our country is done!! with this approval, not only the TIPNIS will suffer, the indigenous groups are being played and will lose their privacy, their way of living…while the rest of us will see how one of our national parks gets destroyed! Not only does this government praise to erase a Law…
It was our problem after all… drug consumption in Bolivia
Current Bolivian president favorite speech was to say that cocaine consumption was not a Bolivian problem, it was the “gringos”… unfortunately and as it often happens with this person, his remarks have little if any empirical evidence, he speaks as he pleases… no analysis, no long-term planning to address those issues, and certainly no thoughts…
In Bolivia, higher mineral prices lead to more illegal and violent take overs
A sad reality in the Bolivia “of the change process,” instead of taking advantage of the extraordinary high prices in the international markets for our raw materials, Bolivia shows little security to private investment and what is worst, has generated anarchical reactions on communities nationwide, Walter Vasquez reports for La Razon: According to data from…
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