Pagina Siete reports: Costas pleads for a Departmental Guard in the presence of “organized mafias” and cartels What is the reason they do not let us do our own departmental guard? Asked the governor of Santa Cruz. The governor of Santa Cruz, Rubén Costas, advocated the creation of a Departmental Guard that has a presence…
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Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city
Harriet Mallinson reports for MailOnLine and AFP: Inside the vibrant suburb that looks like a video game: The $1million technicolour towers that are transforming a Bolivian city Fluorescent-coloured walls tower for up to seven stories at an altitude of 13,000ft in the city of El Alto Called ‘cholets’ by the locals they were built by…
Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
It is not a game, Bolivia is turning into a failed State, a narc one!
It is no secret that Bolivian president has claimed over and over that he is foremost the leader of the coca grower’s of Chapare. Furthermore, a UN report states that over 90% of the Chapare coca goes to narcotraffick … over the last eleven years, this person had absolute control of all State powers, thus…
Bolivia’s coca grower caudillo president Nearly Doubled Land Allowed for Coca
Voice of America reports: Bolivia Set to Nearly Double Land Allowed for Coca A woman chews coca leaves during an event commemorating the tradition of coca leaf chewing in La Paz, Bolivia, Jan. 11, 2017. Coca has been cultivated in the Bolivian Andes since at least the Inca era. [people forget that the Inca and…
Protests over Morales expose divisions among Bolivians
Jurriaan van Eerten reports for Al Jazeera: Protests over Morales expose divisions among Bolivians Some fear Evo Morales will try to seek a fourth, unconstitutional presidential term in 2019. Blanca Penaranda fears Morales’ government is ‘creating a dictatorship’, by backing down on promises that Morales will not stand for a re-election [Eline van Nes/Al Jazeera]…
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