Editorial, Los Tiempos: The arrest, indictment and preventive detention for six months, in the San Pedro prison, La Paz, of the police colonel investigated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and who was national chief anti-drug trafficking in the last nine months of the Morales government could suggest that the national justice system acts…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Drug trafficking: owner of Bolivia? – Narcotráfico: ¿dueño de Bolivia?
Editorial, El Deber: The powerful drug clan that no one saw Day after day, new revelations emerge about what appears to be a powerful clan around drug trafficker Omar Rojas Echeverría, whom in Colombia, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States, they call “Bolivian Pablo Escobar.” The most recent thing that…
A weeping coward and also undesirable – Un cobarde llorón y además indeseable
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: A very long whimper Two years and months have passed since coca grower Morales resigned from the presidency and fled the country, but the whining remains intact, from himself and his judicial team paid for revenge. The attorney general continues to order trials against government officials who had to take over…
Who governs? – Bolivia – ¿Quien gobierna?
Andrés Gómez, Página Siete: Luis’ dilemma From the first day of his inauguration, the cabinet of President Luis Arce ruled for Evo Morales. Then to the hardest core of his electorate. However, what a paradox! Morales is not satisfied with the cabinet that governed for him. He wants more persecuted, more imprisoned, more unhappy Bolivian…
Political use of justice – Bolivia – Uso político de la justicia
Human Rights Watch observes 16 years of political use of justice in Bolivia [Use this link to read the full World Report 2022 pertaining Bolivia, excerpt follows on Justice] Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, HRW: Political interference has plagued Bolivia’s justice system for years. The Jeanine Áñez government (November 2019-2020) pursued baseless charges against political opponents….
In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River
by Iván Paredes Tamayo on 11 January 2022 | Translated by Max Radwin, Mongabay: More than 5,000 Indigenous people would be impacted by flooding from the construction of two dams in Bolivia, according to Indigenous organizations and environmentalists. Successive governments have mulled the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project for more than half a century, and the current administration of…
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