Guider Arancibia, El Deber: Hooded men who attacked roadblocks were in vehicles seized from drug trafficking Two of the three pick-up tracks were identified by police. One of them was seized in the operation that intervened in the luxurious Imperial events room. The law establishes that these assets must be given to social welfare entities….
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Bolivia unions go on strike as political tensions rise
Daniel Ramos, Reuters: LA PAZ, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Bolivia’s transport and retail unions launched an indefinite strike on Monday to protest a law against so-called “illicit profits” and terrorist financing that critics allege is a government ruse to seize private property. Opposition civil and political groups joined the strike, accusing the socialist government of…
Las razones del paro – The reasons for the strike
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Civics, merchants, transporters and other sectors are starting an indefinite general strike today. It is the repetition, expanded, of what happened a month ago and that led the Government to withdraw from the Senate its bill against the Legitimation of Illicit Profits. In the case of the regulation opposed by various sectors…
Desgastado – Luis Arce – Worn Out
The wear of Arce in his first year of government The circumstances in which Luis Arce meets the first year of his government do not seem to be like a celebration. No, because the mobilization that -against Law 1386 on the National Strategy to Fight the Legitimation of Illicit Profits- begins the same day of…
Bolivian journalists abducted, assaulted by armed men while covering land dispute
CPJ.org: Bogotá, November 4, 2021 – Bolivian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the abduction and assault of six journalists by a group of armed men and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On October 28, seven reporters, photographers, and camera operators for several Bolivian media…
Avasalladores son una mafia, generan inseguridad ciudadana – Bullies are a mafia, they generate public insecurity
El Diario: In the name of poverty, they enter municipal sites. These groups exert violence as a method of intimidation “The bullies are the ones who destroy, generate public insecurity, there are armed groups, here (La Paz) there are mafia groups that intimidate the neighbors, threaten them, beat them, the bullies have become a national…
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