Esto También Sucede reports: Editorial – This also happens From Mexico City, Evo Morales is trying to create a FARC in Bolivia, especially in El Chapare. His was a narco-government and is looking to protect his illegal businesses. According to United Nations data, 95% of the coca produced in that region goes to the manufacture…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Evo Morales’ power grab would be a great Netflix series. Call it ‘Emperor of the Andes’
Andres Oppenheimer writes in the Miami Herald. For Spanish, use this link: Dear Netflix content director, Thank you for your recent television series about political corruption and government abuses in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Cuba, some of which I have truly enjoyed. But if you’re looking for new ideas for a series taking place in…
evo’s long-standing legacy is the blooming narcotrafficking along with its violence!
Guillaume Goudreau reports for Illicit Trade News Network: Police in Bolivia arrest Lima Lobo family drugs clan boss in Interpol-supported operation An Interpol-backed operation carried out by law enforcement authorities in Bolivia has resulted in the arrest of a major drug baron wanted by police in Brazil on an international warrant. Investigators in the South…
Evo Morales Is Poised to Cling to Power in Bolivia’s Upcoming Election
Mat Youkee reports for Fair Observer, the picture at the bottom comes from the internet, and reflects evo’s personality and our decision: Following years of progress, a fourth presidential term for Evo Morales would represent a step backward for Bolivia’s democratic consolidation. Bolivia serves as a reminder that, all too often, democracies are only as…
On the razor’s edge
Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: The fate of the country is, at the present time, in a delicate situation in which its destiny will be inclined to progress or backwardness. The objective conditions of that reality have been laid bare in the electoral stage that is under development, amid contradictory conditions. The…
Bolivia Coca Growers Fight for Control of Legal Production
Cat Rainsford writes for InSight Crime: Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions, escalating a long-simmering conflict for control of legal coca production in the Andean nation. The clashes broke out at the beginning of August between two sectors of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers…
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