This cartoon is from El Diario, Nov 23, 2011. While it is commendable any effort to combat narco-trafficking in this hemisphere, UNASUR’s intentions and will are perceived as been like this cartoon portrays. The fight against drugs cannot be just a political discourse. The intent of UNASUR to fight this billionaire business needs to align…
Category: Crime and Violence
Scalating crime rates in Bolivia
This cartoon is from El Diario, 11/11/11. It portrays an almost general perception of Bolivian citizens regarding police effectiveness while combating the crime. Here, a recently mugged woman is shouting “get him, get him!…” as the robber wonders in between puzzled overweight policemen. Police needs a major re-engineering to cope with crime. Crime rates are…
Parallel governments
An article written by Humberto Vacaflor, main thoughts follow, if you want to read the entire Spanish article, please see the link at the end of this post: The authorities in Rio de Janeiro are determined to show the world that in that city, and throughout Brazil, there is no parallel governments, or at least…
TIPNIS: Government keeps on sending the worst possible message
El Deber website offers the latest speech from current Bolivian president: President told the indigenous people of San Ignacio de Moxos to request their leaders and Assembly [congress] representatives to push for the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, so it can go through the TIPNIS. [as planned] He continued by saying the he saved his responsibility by getting the credit for the…
A fading government?
These thoughts are from Humberto Vacaflor, an excellent journalist [inside brackets like this, I clarify a little bit more for those of you that are not familiar with the issues], for the full article in Spanish, please see link below. Potosi indigenous people (Ayllus) from the bordering region with Chile have concluded not to accept that the deadline for the…
The forgotten battle
The forgotten battle, article written by Humberto Vacaflor G. that appeared today in El Deber, follows [there are some notes I made inside this type of brackets for clarifying purposes]: The news agenda in the country gets so overloaded that some news are neglected and some are forgotten, even if they are so important that announce major changes….
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