Bolivia 2014 Crime and Safety Report

Bolivia 2014 Crime and Safety Report Travel Health and Safety; Transportation Security; Surveillance; Stolen items; Theft; Fraud; Kidnapping; Assault; Burglary; Financial Security; Floods; Carjacking; Riots/Civil Unrest; Earthquakes; Drug Trafficking Western Hemisphere > Bolivia; Western Hemisphere > Bolivia > La Paz 8/22/2014 Overall Crime and Safety Situation Crime Threats Most major cities in Bolivia have Medium…

2014 World Food Program response to Bolivia floods

This report was issued 09/02/2014: Bolivia Floods Bulletin N° 14, 2 September 2014 Highlights of the emergency The third and last food distribution within the Emergency Operation (EMOP) 200625 will come to an end during the second week of September. However, EMOP will go until the end of October. WFP will assess the possibility of…

UN human rights commission cannot work in Bolivia

Correo del Sur reports: QHARA QHARA FILES HARASSMENT COMPLAINT IN QUILA QUILA Unions deny passage to a UN commission A human rights commission of the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner was prevented yesterday [09/09/2014] to enter the territory of the Nation Qhara Qhara Suyu by a group of affiliated unions in the site, yesterday reported…

Bolivia, 2nd most dangerous country in construction works

Marcelo Campos reports for El Dia: According to American expert Bolivia, 2nd most dangerous country in construction works Construction. Falls are the leading cause of death worldwide. The American specialist in fall protection, Jean Pierre Martin, said that Bolivia is the second country after Venezuela in not having rules to protect the lives of workers….

90 seized hides were destroyed!

Carmela Delgado reports for El Deber: ENVIRONMENT 90 seized hides were destroyed The market value of the destroyed hides is $20,000 dollars. The Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Governorate proceeded to destroy 90 skins of wild animals, which were seized in June at a craft store in the cruceña capital, Santa Cruz….

Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question

IN MY OPINION Andres Oppenheimer: Bolivia’s election result is hardly in question BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Bolivia’s populist president, Evo Morales, has said he wants to win a third term in office with a whopping 74 percent of the vote in the Oct. 12 elections, and, judging from what his leading contender told me in…