Miguel Melendres reports for El Deber: Indigenous of the TIPNIS declared themselves in alert because of a law Proponents of the TIONIS declare emergency and ask for support. Officials from the Indigenous Territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS) declared themselves in emergency due to the approval of the Amazon Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, the…
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Bolivia already experiences turbulence in the economy led by the ruling ochlocracy!
El Dia reports: According to academic Gonzalo Chávez Already turbulence in the economy Bolivia’s economy, so stable during the boom in natural gas and minerals prices, is beginning to suffer turbulence from an adverse external context and critical official policies that could complicate the reelection plans of leftist President Evo Morales. Deceleration. After growing 5.46%…
The true legacy of the coca grower who functions as Bolivian president … right, president in lower caps
David Gagne reports for InSight Crime: Arrests Suggest Brazilian Gangs Are Deepening Presence in Bolivia Recent actions carried out in Bolivia by Brazil‘s two most powerful prison gangs indicate these groups are looking to deepen their presence in the Andean nation as part of a wider struggle to gain control of the regional drug trade….
Overwhelming evidence of criminal organizations in Bolivia despite delusional denials of central government
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…
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…
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