El Diario reports: Narcotraffick grows in the Amazon region • Task Force to Fight Drug Trafficking operations intensifies. The drug seized on Sunday at a ranch in Beni, came from Peru and was bound for Paraguay and Brazil. Peru remains in a state of emergency. Laboratories, planes and cocaine were found by members of the…
Category: Santa Cruz
Bolivian Chiquitania: The first archaeologist at technical level, graduate!
El Dia reports: Chiquitania The first technical archaeologists graduated The Chiquitania already has its first professional archaeologists at the technical level, who were trained in the school, thanks to the Ministry of Education, supported by six municipalities of the Chiquitania and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation of the Embassy of Spain (AECID). The…
Mutun, a constant reminder of current gov’s inefficiency!
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The Mutún gasometer The Mutún steel project is not working, it is true, but plays an irreplaceable role: used to know how much natural gas is available to Bolivians after the demand for Argentina and Brazil has been serviced. The “gas war” that was fought earlier this century, has…
Illegal land take overs are the best example of this gov’s inability to govern!
El Diario reports: 120 raids of illegal groups 50 farms still enslaved Properties affected, producers expressed their expectation for the return of legal certainty in agribusiness of Santa Cruz. The “grabbers” gave way to the commission of crimes as cattle theft, attempted murder and rape, besides economic damage as a result of criminal actions [estelionato…
Andean bean [haba] is seeking markets!
Ernesto Estremadoiro reports for El Dia: Business conference attracts entrepreneurs from the West Seeking markets for derivatives of the Andean bean [haba] Business conference. Producers of Totora Pampa (Potosí) exported to Argentina and hope to reach agreements with Europa. Teodocia Benavidez is one of the producers of beans [haba] and maize from the community of…
Bolivia’s terrorism of state?! We demand justice to know who promoted it and then, punish the guilty!
From The Irish Times by Tom Hennigan: The room where Michael Dwyer died More than five years after he was shot dead by police, Irishman’s mother and sister visit Bolivia to find out more about how and why he died. [for more pictures, go to the original link, at the bottom, thank you] They wore summer…
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