Follows excerpts from an article that captures most of the events and turmoil we had to endure to get rid of the coca grower caudillo. Article fails to describe how frightened was the Bolivian population with the hordes of masistas who walked down the street of La Paz, at night, banging doors, pillaging and burning…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Lean times’ threats – Amenaza tiempo de vacas flacas
Editorial from El Diario: Lean times’ threats After the era of good times that lasted fourteen years in the country and which was under the administration of the Evo Morales government, the current situation of the national economy faces a stage of economic and political crisis that tends to become the era of lean times….
The “republiqueta” of the Chapare – La “republiqueta ” del Chapare
Juan Carlos Salazar writes in Pagina Siete: The “republiqueta” of the Chapare The word “republiqueta” does not appear in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Language, but historiography recognizes with that name the independent territories organized by guerrilla groups during the War of Independence of Upper Peru (1811-1825). Its characteristic was the institutional…
External and internal conspiracy against Bolivia – Conspiración externa e interna contra Bolivia
Editorial from El Diario: External and internal conspiracy against Bolivia The large criminal groups that have worldwide influence were seriously affected and wounded in their Achilles heel by the victorious insurrectionary popular uprising that last November brought about the overthrow of the autocrat government of Evo Morales, Álvaro García Linera & Co., related to the…
Conservationists cautiously optimistic after Bolivian government changes hands
Ivette Sierra for Mongabay: Forest fires burned across more than 5 million hectares of Bolivia’s forests and savannas last year. Sources say policy changes that encouraged more burning and clearing for agriculture contributed to the 2019 surge in fire activity. Following a contentious election, Evo Morales resigned the presidency in November. Conservationists say the new…
Bolivia Investigations Target Members of Evo Morales’ MAS Party
Max Radwin reports for InSight Crime: Since Bolivia’s botched elections in October 2019, numerous high-standing politicians and law enforcement officials associated with the Movement to Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo – MAS) party have fled the country or come under criminal investigation. Here, InSight Crime presents a roundup of prominent MAS figures connected to asylum claims or…
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