Bolivia ruling ochlocracy, now a senior policeman caught in political extortion!

Jay Weaver describes Bolivian ordeal under the ruling ochlocracy, from the Miami Herald: FEDERAL COURTS Bolivia’s anti-corruption chief charged with extorting airline executive in Miami BY JAY WEAVER JWEAVER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Only in Miami: The Bolivian government’s top anti-corruption cop is locked up in a downtown jail cell, accused of shaking down a foreign businessman here for…

Bolivian political reality forces us to howl!!

Maggy Talavera writes in El Deber, a vivid description of how bad Bolivian citizens are enduring current central government, and they seek an illegitimate re-re-election… It is time to howl… I still do not absorb the horror of the bomb that exploded at the Palmasola prison. It still overwhelms me the resignation of Raúl Peñaranda…

Double standards are recurrent under this coca growing government…

This is an excellent editorial from El Diario: Double ethical standards about coca The current Government of the country apparently has double ethics in relation to the production and cultivation of the coca leaf. Indeed, on the one hand announces that it is dedicated to eradicate large areas of the bush, while, on the other…

What type of “mess” will current Bolivian gov leave us??!

Manfredo Kempff writes in El Diario: The Bolivia that they will leave When this Government leave (all Governments will someday) we will be an invertebrate, dismantled nation, in a deep social crisis, as feared by Ortega of the Spain of the first third of the last century, which had lost its last overseas possessions and…

Mining industry in Bolivia just turned into “no man’s land”!!

And… it is the unfortunate reality: El Diario’s Editorial: Private mining “no man’s land” The Himalaya company suffered the transfer of a part of the mine of the same name in favor of the cooperativa Cerro Negro, without receiving a just compensation, as provided for in the Constitution and without respect for the legitimate right….