This is an excellent article, well written by John Lyons; it reveals how Bolivia has been captured by the worst imaginable nightmare, follows excerpts from this article, portions that pertain to Bolivian reality: Cocaine: The New Front Lines by JOHN LYONS, The Wall Street Journal In the dusty town of Villa Tunari in Bolivia‘s tropical coca-growing…
Tag: bad politics
TIPNIS: …and the charade is complete! and we are not even in carnival, yet…
The damage to our country is done!! with this approval, not only the TIPNIS will suffer, the indigenous groups are being played and will lose their privacy, their way of living…while the rest of us will see how one of our national parks gets destroyed! Not only does this government praise to erase a Law…
It was our problem after all… drug consumption in Bolivia
Current Bolivian president favorite speech was to say that cocaine consumption was not a Bolivian problem, it was the “gringos”… unfortunately and as it often happens with this person, his remarks have little if any empirical evidence, he speaks as he pleases… no analysis, no long-term planning to address those issues, and certainly no thoughts…
In Bolivia, higher mineral prices lead to more illegal and violent take overs
A sad reality in the Bolivia “of the change process,” instead of taking advantage of the extraordinary high prices in the international markets for our raw materials, Bolivia shows little security to private investment and what is worst, has generated anarchical reactions on communities nationwide, Walter Vasquez reports for La Razon: According to data from…
New “law” against the TIPNIS
Egocentric, caudillo, arrogant, intolerant, anarchical and other words do not suffice to qualify this government’s behavior regarding the TIPNIS. Both the indigenous territory and the National Park will lose forever their protected condition, due to the imposition and ill-disposed attitude by sanctioning this so-called law for “prior consultation.” Furthermore, this government is now saying this…
Corruption and coca in Bolivia, February 8, 2012
We had these issues before, however over the last six years or so, both have increased exponentially; there is money and new rich people blooming everyday in Bolivia. Even some international agencies have ‘praised’ current Bolivian macroeconomic policies. Although, they fail to acknowledge how pernicious and damaging are corruption at all levels and the coca/cocaine…
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