This article was written by Humberto Vacaflor, in El Deber 11/23/11, please look at the link below for full-original Spanish article. Laundering has a deadline by Humberto Vacaflor “In three and a half months from now, which is February 13, 2012, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF, GAFI in Spanish) will analyze the situation of Bolivia with respect…
Category: Drug war – narcotraffick
Government official from the Ministry of Cultures caught with drugs
The special combat force against drug trafficking (FELCN) seized last weekend in El Alto international airport, an official from the Ministry of Cultures was apprehended carrying 28 grams of marijuana, according to police sources. This occurred on Sunday, November 13 when Paola Rivas, head of the unit for the coordination of departmental councils for culture, dependent of the Ministry of Cultures,…
Blame the infiltrates… says current president
“They were the infiltrates” is Humberto Vacaflor’s article in El Deber today [inside brackets like this go some clarifications and my opinion]: President Evo Morales has just revealed the deeper truth about their government: the infiltrates are guilty of everything. This was the explanation that the Bolivians were waiting, because they could not understand how all these…
TIPNIS jailers, an editorial from Los Tiempos
Today’s editorial from Los Tiempos, regarding TIPNIS jailers: In order to obtain first-hand information, Los Tiempos organized the trip of a reporting team (a journalist, a photographer and a driver) to confirm, or otherwise, several reports on the construction of a road within the Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS), which would be underway by the indigenous sympathizers of the political…
To DEa or not to BE, cocaine is the question
This cartoon is from El Diario, November 13, 2011. You can see current Bolivian vice-president, in a James Bond posture saying: “The DEA will not return to this country… we don’t need them…! Our security organizations are sufficient!” That is how current Bolivian government perceives the narcotraffick cartels: as children’s play. Pagina Siete reports: “Bolivia is the…
Parallel governments
An article written by Humberto Vacaflor, main thoughts follow, if you want to read the entire Spanish article, please see the link at the end of this post: The authorities in Rio de Janeiro are determined to show the world that in that city, and throughout Brazil, there is no parallel governments, or at least…
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