Bolivian legal and informal economies… along with ochlocratic rulings…

Great enlightening article that portrays our Bolivia. Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Deber: Differential Yearbook The 21st Century Newsletter has tested a novel ‘differential Yearbook’, a balance which leaves 2013 in the legal sector of the economy and also the illegal. According to the American economist Peter Andreas, to discuss economics only looking at the…

Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York

Joseph Berger writes in The New York Times: Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York A Brooklyn flooring contractor and father of five, who was jailed in Bolivia for 18 months until the intervention of the actor Sean Penn lessened his punishment to confinement under house arrest, has been spirited…

Armed groups inside Amboro National Park!

Jorge Arancibia reports for El Deber: IN THE ICHILO PROVINCE Armed groups prey on the forest in Park Amboro An operating activity conducted  by  Sernap, the police and the Mayor of San Carlos discovered bands that draw large amounts of mahogany wood, sold in Yapacaní. An operation that lasted three days confirmed the pillaging that…