Bolivia faces corruption and drug trafficking

Erbol reports for El Dia: By wave of corruption and drug trafficking Church watches tentacles in power The expression was from the Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Monsignor Sergio Gualberti. The Catholic Church observes that, in the midst of a growing social disintegration, the octopus and the tentacles of corruption and drug trafficking have spread to…

Bolivian Women Fight Gender-Based Violence through Theater

AP reports via VoA: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — On stage, amid the hubbub of a Bolivian street market, women recount their stories of abuse at the hands of men. But the violence depicted in the play isn’t just make-believe for the 22 indigenous actresses: It’s based on their own real-life experiences. “Kusisita,” a work that seeks…

The rapes haunting a community that shuns the 21st Century

Linda Pressly reports for BBC News: In Manitoba, an insular Mennonite colony in Bolivia whose residents eschew modernity, nine men were rounded up in 2009. Later, they were convicted of the rape and sexual assault of 151 women and girls – including small children – within this small Christian community. So why are Manitoba’s leaders…

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…