Retired Bolivian police general, Rene Sanabria, a former intelligence chief in the war against narcotraffick, was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in jail, for having been associated with cocaine import to the USA. Sentence was sanctioned by judge Ursula Ungaro, in a Federal Court in southern Florida. Sanabria, age 58, was found guilty by…
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Narcs in Bolivia: beware!! today is Sanabria’s sentence!
The former most powerful Bolivia authority in the fight against drugs and narcotrafficking will hear his sentence, in a Miami court today. Rene Sanabria is being prosecuted by Judge Ursula Ungaro (who prosecuted successfully Noriega some years back). American journalists who are experts in this subject, say that today there may not be other names that…
TIPNIS group deprived from water!! (see chart below)
Ruy D’Alencar, special envoy from El Deber reports: TIPNIS protest-walk group can not get water! it is not because it is far away… water can be found in Chaparina stream, twenty meters away from where they were stopped by the police! Yes, 20 meters!! and they can’t have it! The group is on the road for its…
TIPNIS’ stakeholders, part II
This cartoon is from El Dia (9/21/11), it reads “Oppressed Indigenous” the TIPNIS protest-walk group is surrounded by illegal loggers with chainsaw, high landers with dynamite, policemen with clubs and shields and coca growers with whips. This protests group is surrounded, deprived from water which is nearby and food supplies were not allowed to reach them. In…
About TIPNIS and coca leaf production, a theory appears…
Aside of the protest walk of the TIPNIS that is entering its second month, there is another issue that may be related to such road passing through this National Park: coca leaf production is said to exhaust the nutrients of the soil where it’s grown. An initial thought is that coca growers in the Chapare…
Bolivian police has stopped TIPNIS protest-walk group, 9/20/11
The Bolivian police force deployed in Yucumo, has stopped the TIPNIS protest march group by the bridge Chaparina, reports La Razon in its website at 18:06 hours today. Police said they took that measure as precautionary as the settlers are also there (arrived to that bridge around 11:00); police justified their action as they said they…
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