What is Bolivia becoming to? Coca reality and a grim dark future?

Claudio Ferrufino writes for El Dia, how Bolivians are left with nothing… how we are pushed and been manipulated by a few hollow people… Coquivia [coca-road] The destroyer of mother earth rubs his chubby hands with pleasure. He is sure that finally has got carte blanche to expand his business. He, in person, or the…

Elections in Beni

Carlos Cordero analyzes the elections in Beni; elections that are a result of the political pressure from current national government… From El Deber: Elections in Beni Finally the Amazon soap-opera about a heartless Government and the sad story of kidnapped democracy will reach the end of its first chapter. Now comes the second and definitive….

2012 in review

Bolivian Thoughts in an Emerging World likes to thank all of you dear and regarded visitors! I hope to see you again this 2013 and that our country shines and leaves behind all the uncertainty, hatred and resentment of those poor demagogue people. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film…

Bolivia MUST stop political persecution!!

Ivan Arias Duran for Pagina Siete: Amnesty now! The national Government has been magnanimous with smugglers and common criminals, because for the former, decreed amnesty for smuggled [chutos] cars (2011) and for the latter, the treatment of a law of pardon (2012). However, it insists on denying the existence of political prisoners while Bolivians know…