Enrique Fernandez describes superbly the origin of current ruling ochlocracy… this is basic to understand Bolivia’s ordeal, writes in El Dia: October 2003, a myth to destroy Before the speeches proliferate, demagoguery and the threats to the United States, we should speak without fear. We are accustomed to see the facts misrepresented to legitimize an…
Category: Crime and Violence
Bolivian drug dealers botch million dollar money drop
From Gawker.com: Bolivian drug dealers botch million dollar money drop Drug traffickers messed up big time when they dropped a bag containing more than a million dollars right into the hands of Bolivian anti-drug police. The drop from a low-flying plane in the Santa Cruz province was intercepted by drug enforcement officials after it was intended…
Under current ochlocracy, Bolivia lost the state-of-law!!
Carlos Toranzo writes for Pagina Siete: Non-existence of the State of law Who, who accepts the rule and follows it? In our country, who accept the laws and respect them? It seems that no one or very few. On the contrary, we have entered to the whirlpool that all counts, the total disregard and violation…
Bolivian ochlocracy “offers” [threatens with] more nationalizations…
From the editorial page of El Dia: About telephone companies and insecurity What we Bolivians came to find out now. It is now known that the responsible for the insecurity in the country are two private telephone, for allegedly not cooperating in the investigation of the kidnappings and other serious crimes. The Government has been…
Five years from ignoring who caused death in Porvenir, Pando
Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: The process remains stalled Porvenir, five years without knowing the truth Pando. The opposition says that the Government has the former Prefect Leopoldo Fernández as a trophy. Today [9/11/13] marks five years of the Porvenir massacre, unless you know for sure who were the instigators of the confrontation between…
Authoritarian leaders breed corruption and Bolivia is no longer a surprise
Andres Oppenheimer writes in The Miami Herald: Authoritarian leaders breed corruption BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM What’s most amazing about the arrest in Miami of Bolivia’s top anti-corruption police official, caught on tape extorting a bribe from a well-known businessman, was that hardly anybody was surprised by the news. Corruption by top officials of Bolivia, Ecuador,…
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