Pagina Siete reports an estimated 8,000 stolen vehicles (mostly from neighboring countries) are currently in the process of nationalization, as declared by the president of the National Customs of Bolivia (ANB), Marlene Ardaya to ERBOL network, and published by Pagina Siete on Monday Oct. 31 . Ardaya previously indicated that, as a result of allowing over 128,000 vehicles that were smuggled and now in the process of making…
Category: Crime and Violence
Austrian tourist was not lost in Bolivia – Elmar Stellnberger
Sometime ago I wrote about Elmar Stellnberger, an Austrian tourist that appeared to be kidnapped or something worse… the link of that post is: https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/austrian-tourist-missing-in-bolivia-october-22-2011/ I honestly thought Bolivia would look bad for our tourism industry, today’s Pagina Siete published he is live and kicking!! Over a month ago he went to Cobija and then moved to Brasilea town, just crossing…
Anti-money laundering & combating the financing of terrorism
This excerpt is from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF; GAFI in Spanish), a report made available back in June 2011, Bolivian performance follows: “The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global standard setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). In order to protect the international financial system from ML/FT…
Update on TIPNIS indigenous people whereabouts
As indigenous people are going back home, yesterday a group of them were beaten and assaulted, they lost the gifts that they received from the people during their protest walk, especially during their stay in La Paz city. With tears in their eyes, they accused people they believe were coca growers. I hope those alleged…
Austrian tourist missing in Bolivia, October 22, 2011
His name is Elmar Stellnberger, entered Bolivia on September 18th, from Peru. Bolivian police is searching for his whereabouts, as well as the Austrian Embassy. A photo of Stellnberger appears in the link below. This post is for tourists in Bolivia that may know anything about this unfortunate event, to call to the Austrian Embassy in…
Briefs: drought; death count; A H1N1
Drought: The Chaco region in Santa Cruz is experiencing severe drought, cattle are the most hurting. So far 46 animals died because of lack of food and water, as reported by Fegasacruz (cattle grower’s association) to La Razon. There is an estimated half a million bovine cattle in the region that are in jeopardy. The local demand for…
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