El Diario reports: Brazil drug cartels operate in the country • At least 100 emissaries of the Brazilian Primer Comando da Capital (PCC) [Pimer Comando de Capital] cartel were detected operating in Bolivia, police commander Abel de la Barra reported. • Brazilian and Bolivian authorities will gather in the neighboring country to coordinate operations, such…
Category: Crime and Violence
Let’s not forget how a true populist demagogue behaved with the Bolivian disabled!
Jonathan Watts reports for The Guardian; along with a very harsh video … Bolivia’s caravan of courage leaves a bittersweet legacy for disabled protesters When disabled protesters traversed the Andes to lobby for improved benefits, they were met with a police blockade. The Fight, a Guardian documentary, chronicles a battle that led to brutal violence…
The true legacy of the coca grower who functions as Bolivian president … right, president in lower caps
David Gagne reports for InSight Crime: Arrests Suggest Brazilian Gangs Are Deepening Presence in Bolivia Recent actions carried out in Bolivia by Brazil‘s two most powerful prison gangs indicate these groups are looking to deepen their presence in the Andean nation as part of a wider struggle to gain control of the regional drug trade….
Ex-Presidents, Opposition Figures Accuse Bolivia’s Morales of Political Persecution
Latin American Herald Tribune reports: Ex-Presidents, Opposition Figures Accuse Bolivia’s Morales of Political Persecution LA PAZ – Two former Bolivian presidents, an ex-vice president and three leaders of opposition parties on Wednesday said that President Evo Morales has transformed the judiciary into an “instrument of political persecution” to take action against his adversaries, thus damaging…
Overwhelming evidence of criminal organizations in Bolivia despite delusional denials of central government
Pagina Siete reports: Costas pleads for a Departmental Guard in the presence of “organized mafias” and cartels What is the reason they do not let us do our own departmental guard? Asked the governor of Santa Cruz. The governor of Santa Cruz, Rubén Costas, advocated the creation of a Departmental Guard that has a presence…
Ultimate Bolivian gov’s international embarrassment!
Adam Shaw reports for Fox News: SECURITY COUNCIL Haley forces Bolivia to defend Assad ‘atrocities’ in ‘public view’ at UN session U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley forced Bolivia to “defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime” in “full public view” on Friday, after the country’s ambassador requested a closed session to discuss President…
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