An Editorial from El Diario: Coca impoverishes agriculture Many regions in the Yungas of La Paz and several places that have valleys and headwaters of the valley, have been victims of coca, -when the plant is excedentario [in excess]- when used to manufacture cocaine. Los Yungas region has traditionally been a producer of vegetables, coffee,…
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Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters
From Bloomberg BusinessWeek, although over a year old of being written, it holds fully: Bolivia’s Rare Bond Sale Proves a Warning to Yield Hunters By Nathan Gill and Veronica Navarro Espinosa January 24, 2013 Bolivia’s first international bond sale in almost a century is turning into a cautionary tale for fixed-income investors trying to bolster…
Bolivia gov neglects to acknowledge we are entering economic crisis!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The economic adjustment The government does not accept the crisis, is taking steps to try to reduce its effects but certainly their habit makes them insists and announce monumental works such as Palacio Quemado 2. Using wrong numbers by mistake or on purpose, it does not seem advisable. Probably…
Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open
Roberto Ortiz writes in the blog of the Panam Post: Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open International Warnings Do Little to Temper Drug-Trafficking Haven Roberto Ortiz October 27, 2014 at 4:24 pm One year ago, in October 2013, I wrote “Bolivia, the Narco-Trafficker’s Paradise,” published in El Deber and El Dia. My article…
ART EXHIBIT ON DISCRIMINATION
La Prensa reports: COLLECTIVE SHOWS ART EXHIBIT ON DISCRIMINATION In order to show discriminatory attitudes that are also a form of passive exercise violence, the group of muralists called Patunka Octubre will express these behaviors through their artwork. [picture was obtained when searching for “Bolivia discrimination pics”] The exhibition will be inaugurated today at the…
Is there a direct correlation between being THE coca grower leader and the cocaine “boom”?!
El Diario reports: Narcotraffick grows in the Amazon region • Task Force to Fight Drug Trafficking operations intensifies. The drug seized on Sunday at a ranch in Beni, came from Peru and was bound for Paraguay and Brazil. Peru remains in a state of emergency. Laboratories, planes and cocaine were found by members of the…
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