David Cagne reports for InSight Crime: Bolivia Minister Sticks to Party Line on Foreign Cartel Presence Bolivia’s interior minister said emissaries of Brazilian and Colombian drug trafficking groups are operating within the Andean nation, but the scope of foreign participation in the country’s drug trade could be greater than the minister admits. [cartoon is from…
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British drug smuggler describes life inside notorious Bolivian jail where governor snorted cocaine and murder was part of everyday life
Lewis Panther rerports for Mirror: British drug smuggler describes life inside notorious Bolivian jail where governor snorted cocaine and murder was part of everyday life Thomas McFadden spent five years inside a jail in Bolivia and watched men beaten to death but lived to tell the tale in a new film. Turning up to prison…
US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish
Sabrina Martin reports for PanAm Post: US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish Once again Bolivia and Venezuela, along with Burma, are the countries where there is a “demonstrable failure” in their obligations to fight drug trafficking. [this is a no-brainer considering the coca grower caudillo from the region has become president, after…
Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model … WTH!?
Hoybolivia.com reports: Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model Santa Cruz.- In connection with President Evo Morales’s trip to Venezuela to commemorate the four years since Hugo Chávez’s death, congressman of the Democrat political party, Luis Felipe Dorado said that the president “continues to spend without permission Bolivian resources for his travels of private…
Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
Georgina Jiménez, writes for IC Magazine via Truth Out A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia Over the past 10 years, the area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from three million hectares in 2007[1] to more than thirty one million[2]. Precisely 28.84% of the surface of Bolivia…
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