Long-time leader of the coca growers and current president of Bolivia has “staged” “great” celebrations of what he and his acolytes believe it is a success… ERBOL reports: Growers celebrate the chewed decriminalization UN denies Bolivia the possibility of exporting coca Monday, January 14, 2013 – 12: 06 The representative of the United Nations Office…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
2012 in review
Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World likes to thank all of you dear and regarded visitors! I hope to see you again this 2013 and that our country shines and leaves behind all the uncertainty, hatred and resentment of those poor demagogue people. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film…
Black November… what will Bolivian politics bring for 2013??!!
Since 2003, after turmoil, social unrest we labelled those periods as “Black February” “Black October”… now Carlos Cordero writes a very significant description of current political party in the central power of Bolivia. From Los Tiempos: Black November Before November and before discovering the network of extortion around key ministries of the Government of President Morales,…
Politics 101: Can Bolivia afford and continue to EVOlve around this egocentric state??!!
This article exposes the type of governement we have been enduring over the last seven years and prior years filled with road blockades, coca expansion and blooming anarchy… Raquel Otalora writes for El Deber: Million dollars to cover the orders of President Evo Morales Expensive tastes, which the President has. From an exclusive aircraft equipped…
Bolivian developmental gaps, can they be avoided??!!
Alberto Bonadona in Pagina Siete: The gaps toward development In Bolivia there is still the real awareness of the gaps that separate the Bolivian society and its development. The General formulas that international officials or local economists give continues. Abound the recommendations about the need for more education, more investment, etc. etc., but does not…
2011-2012: Bolivia and the obscene practice of the exercise of power
An exceptional end-of-the-year analysis by Susana Seleme Antelo, from http://www.hoybolivia.com: The obscene practice of the exercise of power “When lawyers tell me it is illegal, I just do it and I say just do it, then legalize it; for that they have studied”. Evo Morales Ayma. President of the former Republic of Bolivia, today Pluri-national State….
