El Deber website offers the latest speech from current Bolivian president: President told the indigenous people of San Ignacio de Moxos to request their leaders and Assembly [congress] representatives to push for the construction of the road Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de Moxos, so it can go through the TIPNIS. [as planned] He continued by saying the he saved his responsibility by getting the credit for the…
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The dog in the manger
The dog of the gardener (in the manger), is an article written by Susana Seleme Antelo. that appeared yesterday in El Deber, follows [there are some notes I made inside this type of brackets for clarifying purposes only]: The famous play by Lope de Vega [“El perro del hortelano”] inspired me to write about the manipulation…
The forgotten battle
The forgotten battle, article written by Humberto Vacaflor G. that appeared today in El Deber, follows [there are some notes I made inside this type of brackets for clarifying purposes]: The news agenda in the country gets so overloaded that some news are neglected and some are forgotten, even if they are so important that announce major changes….
Money laundering & terrorism financing update
The link below is from an earlier post about the Bolivian performance regarding anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism in the international arena, as evaluated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF, GAFI in Spanish). https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/anti-money-laundering-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/ Los Tiempos newspaper sent some questions to current Bolivian government regarding about our performance and today a reply was printed,…
Anti-money laundering & combating the financing of terrorism
This excerpt is from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF; GAFI in Spanish), a report made available back in June 2011, Bolivian performance follows: “The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global standard setting body for anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). In order to protect the international financial system from ML/FT…
Final Balance over the Bolivian TIPNIS struggle
This cartoon is from El Diario, October 23, 2011; current Bolivian president trapped! He is weaving a white flag in an act of surrender. On one end a huge crowd representing not only the TIPNIS and other indigenous people, but most of Bolivian citizens in support of the indigenous territory and the national park. At…
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