InSight Crime reports: UN Reports Small Decrease in Bolivia Coca Cultivation Written by Deborah Bonello Coca cultivation in Bolivia has reached its lowest levels since United Nations monitoring began in 2003, moving the country closer to policy makers’ de facto cap on coca crops. But as transnational drug trafficking intensifies, the world’s third-largest coca producer…
Month: July 2016
Abandoned steam train graveyard in Bolivia, in pictures
From The Telegraph: Abandoned steam train graveyard in Bolivia, in pictures In the heart of southern Bolivia lies a mysterious train graveyard, where the skeletons of British steam locomotives and carriages rust away on the edge of the world’s largest salt flats. The graveyard contains over 100 steam locomotives and rail cars which been dumped…
Bolivian ochlocracy 101: evo delivers his best…
A cartoon from Pagina Siete: It is disgusting to see how the coca grower caudillo had wasted over $150 billion dollars during the years of his presidency. Now that the international prices of our commodity exports have fallen, the demagogue populist has no better option than to continue to squeeze those of us who relentlessly…
Freedom of Expression is under peril in Bolivia!
Today’s cartoon in El Diario reflects Bolivian democracy is in danger! The press is being hunted fierce and relentlessly by the masistas. Freedom of expression is under peril. Owners and journalists of media who remain “independent”, that is: not under the control of the government, who have not been bought or “purchased” with propaganda money…
Jubileo: Bolivia has no capacity to meet demand for gas
Pagina Siete reports: Jubileo: Bolivia has no capacity to meet demand for gas In the event that Brazil and Argentina demanded the maximum volumes of natural gas that allows them to contract simultaneously, Bolivia currently is not able to meet this demand, which is opposed to the idea of turning the country into a regional…
Brazil, Bolivia Gang Up on International Drug Ring
Written by Mike LaSusa for Insight Crune; Brazil, Bolivia Gang Up on International Drug Ring Authorities in Brazil and Bolivia carried out a joint operation against a group suspected of international drug trafficking in the latest sign of increasing law enforcement cooperation between Brazil and its cocaine-producing neighbors. Media outlets based in both countries reported…
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