From a Brazilian newspaper, Correio do Estado: Bolivia clogs Brazil with cocaine and PF seizes more 700 kilos This is the second largest seizure of drugs, in less than a month in MS. [State of Matto Grosso do Sul] With the wide open border, traffickers in Bolivia are clogging Brazil with cocaine, pouring in the…
Category: Crime and Violence
Bolivian Human Rights 101: Bolivia: Fix Laws That Undermine Rights
From Human Rights Watch: Bolivia: Fix Laws That Undermine Rights Recent Laws on Child Labor, Justice, Free Expression Need Revision DECEMBER 15, 2014 (New York) – Bolivia should amend several laws that undermine the rights to freedom of association and expression, due process guarantees, and children’s rights, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter…
Meet Chile’s aggression: land mines continue at the border!
El Diario reports: Chile fails to meet deadline for demining at the border The demining process should have been completed in 2011 by determination of the Ottawa Convention, but progress is slow, said Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra. Chile only have defused 25% of the explosives, according to Senator Ignacio Mendoza. Given the limited progress on demining…
Working attitudes and performance of political appointees under the MAS
One of my readers sent me the pictures and told me about this “experience”… The following photos illustrate how regular, plain political appointees do “their job” under existing ruling ochlocracy’s watch… our money, our taxes and all that wastefulness! This happened in one Bolivian airport at one of the three most important cities. “Getting ready…”…
How to help end violence against women
Ban Ki-moon writes in The World Economic Forum: How to help end violence against women Violence against women is a global pandemic. It is a problem that knows no geographic, socio-economic or cultural boundaries. It takes many forms and it is pervasive: One in three women will experience physical or sexual violence at some point…
Transportation and illegal logging increases the carbon footprint in Bolivia
Miguel Roca reports for El Deber: Transport and illegal logging increases the carbon footprint in Bolivia The vehicle fleet and the expansion of the agricultural frontier, among others, increase the emission of greenhouse gases that create the footprint carbono.Valeria Revilla, technical manager of Environmental Services Bolivia, reported that the per capita carbon footprint generated Bolivia…
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