El Dia reports: According to the CSUTCB Indigenous Fund gave money to a ghost town They gave Bs630.000 to an uninhabited community in Beni. Call for investigation. The Campesino Workers Trade Union Confederation of Bolivia (CSUTCB) verified that the Indigenous Development Fund for Native Farmers (Fondioc) disbursed Bs630,000 for a productive project in a community…
Category: Social Unrest
The exploitation of non-renewable resources under current Bolivian gov
An Editorial from El Diario: The exploitation of non-renewable resources A picture of mining, hydrocarbons and “industrialization” shows no results as positive as we would like, so the bonanza disseminated by government spokesmen would be in question. In connection with tin – traditional source of income of the country things are not going well. Huanuni…
What to do with the informal economy that destroys Bolivia?
An Editorial from El Diario: Informal economy destroys the country Informal economy or for better words, illicit trade, has been since ancient times, contrary to the interests of nations. Its validity has led the best efforts, dedication to work and production to faint, placing the validity of the convictions on decline or weaken laws; finally,…
Sean Penn punked Ego, a coca grower who’s the occasional president…
Written by Shiryn Ghermezian, from The Algemeiner: Jacob Ostreicher, the Orthodox Jewish American who was held captive in Bolivia for three years, on Sunday revealed details for the first time on how actor Sean Penn helped bring him back to the U.S. last December and personally nursed him to mental and physical health. “I spent…
Bolivian lowlands flooded with cocaine
A good Editorial from El Diario: Flood of cocaine in the eastern region The many discoveries of cocaine factories and traffickers of that dangerous drug in various parts of the East, has shown that the country was not only invaded and inundated by water during the last rainy season, but is now practically flooded with…
The alleged terrorist-separatist case is falling down the cracks!
Carlos Valverde writes in El Deber: Here we go again … but more It appears that the national government believe it is possible to move “away from the splashing made by Soza” and go out to discredit him with countless allegations, but mostly because Soza has ratified himself by the wording of the letter and…
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