Editorial, El Dia: More than one in the MAS regime must have felt chills after the separate statements made by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrator and the Southern District of New York prosecutor, Damian Williams, who is leading the case against Bolivia’s former anti-narcotics chief, Maximiliano Dávila, recently extradited. Anne Milgram made it…
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Semanas de agitación han paralizado a esta nación sudamericana. Aquí está el porqué. | Weeks of Upheaval Have Paralyzed This South American Nation. Here’s Why.
Por Genevieve Glatsky y María Silvia Trigo, The New York Times: Las protestas en Bolivia, desencadenadas por una disputa entre el presidente y un rival político, han causado caos. Una de las consecuencias: la escasez de combustible que ha obligado a los conductores a hacer filas durante días para obtener gasolina. Las manifestaciones han sacudido a Bolivia…
BOLIVIA: will not renew all magistrates in this Sunday’s judicial elections: Find out what will happen in your region | no renovará a todos los magistrados en las judiciales de este domingo: Sepa qué sucederá en su región
By Mauricio Quiroz Terán, El Deber; Eju.tv: With a one-year delay, over 7.3 million voters across the country have been authorized to elect 26 senior authorities of the Judicial Branch The third judicial election in Bolivia’s history will take place with a one-year delay and will be partial. Not all high-ranking authorities of the Judicial Branch…
Null for Nothing at All | Nulo para nada
By Alfonso Gumucio, Brujula Digital: We have a weak and contaminated Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). The questioned electoral roll hasn’t been reviewed for years. There will be no poll watchers, no TREP, no voting in some departments, no social oversight, no photos of tally sheets at the end of the day, and no possibility of…
Maximiliano Davila: Turned law enforcement into a cocaine trafficking machine | Convirtió la fuerza de la ley en una máquina de tráfico de cocaína
By Paulo Lizarraga, Vision 360: Drug Trafficking DEA concludes that Dávila used his position as anti-drug chief to fuel drug trafficking U.S. judicial authorities condemned in a report the “abhorrent” and “unsurprising” conduct of Bolivia’s former anti-drug czar, who is set to appear for the first time before the country’s justice system today. Dávila was…
Probable imminent collapse of air connectivity | Probable colapso inminente de la conectividad aérea
By Daniel Salazar Castellanos, Bloomberg Linea; Eju.tv: Bolivia could face an “imminent collapse of air connectivity”; understand why Amid the dollar shortage Bolivia has been facing for months, the Andean country faces other significant challenges, such as the high cost of fuel (US$3.75 per gallon) and “the lack of adequate bilateral agreements,” according to ALTA…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 