This cartoon appeared in El Dia, December 19, 2011. It says: “Happiness: Is the forest to destroy and plant single crops” and you see in the right side, an illegal coca grower planting the source for cocaine, crime and drug addiction. On the left side you have a private agriculturalists planting a single crop, could…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Current Bolivian president’s acceptance drops by 50%!!
There is an old say: “you harvest what you sown” and that finally gets proven for beautiful Bolivia, as Pagina Siete reflects in today’s article: Much has happened between the end of this year and that December 2009, when Evo Morales swept presidential elections and the drop in his popularity is a sign of things….
More coca crops, please?
This cartoon appeared yesterday in La Razon, where we see current president and vice-president… in Christmas attires.. the vice is saying “what our good kids ask the most is to legalize more coca…” Last week the UN office in charge of controlling coca reduction, drug control came to Bolivia. Current president wanted to have the coca chewing be…
US keeps dialogue with Bolivia… what about us??!
MercoPress.com article “US tries to re-establish full relations with Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela,” published yesterday; follows excerpts pertaining our lovely country: ““We continue to dialogue with these countries about what would be needed to normalize relations at ambassador level, and to work on that track”, said Nuland during a round with the press on Tuesday….
Who is who for this government…?
This cartoon is from El Diario, December 13, 2011. It shows how current government is handling the meeting where most of the players and real stakeholders were left out of it. You see two of the ruling party talking in front of an entrance door with the label: Social Summit, Cochabamba, And a chart that reads:…
Odd couple?! nazi symbol and cocaine??!!
El Deber, Guider Arancibia Guillen reports something really odd… In the trunk of a station wagon, a man was carrying 204 kilos of cocaine in mold type bricks, all wore the nazi logo. The report was confirmed by the head of the special force of fight against the drug trafficking (FELCN), Fernando Amurrio; after some…
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