Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Coca crops or textiles When the government announced the dismissal of workers of the National Textile Corporation (Enatex), it should be disclosed for reasons of national accounting and awareness, the number of jobs that illegal coca has created in the country. Because, as everyone knows, the company that now…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
The Bolivian Case premiere, a film about drugs and justice
One of the “seals” of current Bolivian government is the disproportionate growth of drug trafficking. Not only the political base of current president, the coca growers of the Chapare are to be blamed for supplying the essential. Cocaine production and trafficking has spread all over Bolivia and also we have become transit country for other…
The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis: masistas fail big time!
From Harvard Business Review: An extremely important resemblance to the totalitarian and ochlocracy regime that rules Bolivia. Masistas fail big time in most of them, i.e. not in number 4, planning, which by their ochlocratic nature, they simply can’t. It is a great reading to compare how the masistas have ruined the best economic boom in…
Evo cumple! Evo delivers! Bolivia: the New Hub for Drug Trafficking in South America
From [a sad but true description of how Bolivia has changed… if you want to read this revealing article in Spanish, please use this link] Bolivia: the New Hub for Drug Trafficking in South America Transnational organized crime likes opportunities and little resistance. Bolivia currently provides both and finds itself at the heart of a…
Human Rights Council and the Universal Periodic Review for Bolivia
Human Rights Council adopts outcomes of Universal Periodic Review of Bolivia, Fiji, and San Marino … The Human Rights Council met on March 18, 2015. And as it was expected, the Bolivian government managed to receive praises, even on indigenous affairs, forgetting the brutal police aggression on the TIPNIS people at Chaparina, and the ongoing repression…
30.2% of Bolivian population were victim of corruption since the masismo assumed power… WTH?!
Bolivia has been shaken by increasing corruption and violence levels since the coca-grower caudillo assumed presidency. Almost a decade has past and over $150 billion dollars wasted. The ochlocracy is ruling the country and anarchy takes over. The following is an excerpt of The Economist article on corruption and my comment in that site: ……
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