Natural parks, land of drugs | Parques naturales, tierra de drogas

Editorial, El Deber: The national parks of Bolivia are abandoned, the State does not take care of them and, as a natural consequence, drug traffickers appropriate them to install their cocaine factories there, when the settlers are not the ones who arrive first to occupy land, to clear and settle illegally with the help of…

10 años después – TIPNIS – 10 years later

Lupe Cajias, El Deber: Ten years ago the image of Evo Morales and the Government of the Movement for Socialism enjoyed respect inside and outside of Bolivia. The presidency of a descendant of indigenous peoples from Latin America, the discourse on the rights of peoples, concern for the poor, the gaze towards Mother Earth Pachamama,…

Drug trafficking & Luis Arce – Narcotráfico y Luchin

Editorial, El Deber: The fight against drug trafficking Four mega-factories of cocaine were found in a week by the Special Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (Felcn). Two of them in the heart of the Noel Kempff Mercado Park and two in the Isiboro Sécure National Park Indigenous Territory (Tipnis). Two protected areas that have been…