Archaeology reports: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—New Scientist reports that Melanie Miller of the University of Otago and her colleagues detected traces of five psychoactive chemicals on a collection of drug paraphernalia discovered in a rock shelter in southwestern Bolivia. The rock shelter is thought to have been a funerary enclosure where members of the Tiwanaku state may…
Month: May 2019
Bolivian narcotraffick 101 – Settling of scores without lead
Alejandro Mallea writes in El Diario: The truth even if it hurts Since the 50s of the twentieth century the terms terrorism, organized crime, settling of scores, drug trafficking, communism, socialism, Marxism, government and state were exposed in books documented by doctors Joseph Douglas and Ray Cline, former directors of the CIA. They affirm that…
Traffic of the red forehead macaw propitiates workshop and the proposal of harder penalties
Berthy Vaca reports for El Deber: The meeting to talk about the traffic of species, taking as a flag the jaguar, will be on July 24 and 25 in Santa Cruz. For conservationists, the villagers of the communities must become protectors of the threatened fauna In the Santa Cruz Kempff Mercado zoo, they live no…
High-Ranking Bolivia Police Gave Protection to Wanted Drug Trafficker
Parker Asmann reports for InSight Crime: A number of high-ranking police officials in Bolivia have been arrested for their suspected links to a drug trafficker wanted for years by police in Brazil, but the full extent of their collusion has yet to be revealed. Authorities in Bolivia arrested Gonzalo Medina, the former head of the…
Running in Bolivia
Oliver Balch reports for The New York Times: At just shy of 4,000 meters, my wheezing lungs and leaden legs remind me that I’m in foreign territory in every sense. The teenager running alongside me, Luz, doesn’t say much. She is focused, her head dead straight, her stride landing rhythmically on the tarmac highway. Luz…
A unique tour of Bolivia, from cathedrals and markets to the world’s first salt hotel
Mary Miers reports for Country Life: Laguna Colorada (red lagoon) is aptly named. Its startling red colours derive from both dissolved red mineral deposits and algae; these contrast with blinding white white borax deposits. Located in the Bolivian altiplano, close to Chile, this is one of South America’s most beautiful salt lakes. Its flamingo and…
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