El Dia reports over 50,000 hectares being taken over illegally: Oil producers are in emergency because more than 400 people have taken 50,000 productive hectares on the outskirts of the community of Chihuahua, the municipality of Cuatro Cañadas, and fear that if the Government does not intervene any time [soon], there will be a confrontation…
Category: Crime and Violence
A tale of two failures: EvoNOMICS and political INvoLUTION
Current government started saying they were going to give academic lectures on economics, they keep pushing with the de-dollarization of our economy, thus generating worst opportunities to our industry and welcoming smuggled goods (used and new) into our markets. This cartoon is from El Diario, March 12, 2012. You can see how Chinese merchandise is threatening the…
Bolivian government’s pathetic politics…
Bolivian humor is used to diffuse frustration and impotence regarding how laws are not enforced, how public safety is almost nonexistent, how current political party in government wants to erase our past, as if our parents and their grandparents before had nothing to contribute to being a Bolivian citizen: This is from El Diario, March…
Bolivian government fits the ‘ineptocracy” mold
Andres Oppemheimer has written (for the Miami Herald) the following article and it fits nicely, unfortunately and embarrassedly enough our Bolivian reality: IN MY OPINION Latin Americans complain of “Ineptocracies” BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM A new definition of bad governments is spreading fast on the internet: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) — a system where the least capable…
Sayaquira mine violent takeover, again!!!
Pagina Siete reports on the infamous, anarchical and illegal take over of private property, Sayaquira mine was, again invaded by a violent and angry mob: Eight male persons were detained and transferred to cells of the special force of fight against crime (FELCC) the morning of Friday, March 23, 2012, charged with the subjugation of…
The Bolivian coca-ine reality show
During the last six years, the coca/cocaine industry has permeated our society, has changed our pacific lifestyle and threatens to become our worst nightmare: This is from El Diario, March 13, 2012: A full airplane is trying to lift-off on its way to Austria, it has the label “austere coca grower entourage” Current Bolivian president…
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