Chapare, “no man’s land” [evo delivers!]

El Diario reports: According to opponents The ambush of a Umopar patrol, after discovering the airstrip, is a fact that shows the close complicity of coca growers and drug trafficking, says Oscar Ortiz Regardless of the injured personnel, the death of a resident was recorded due to the impact of a gunshot, a fact that…

Bolivia: Banana export prices decreased by 50%

From La Prensa via Freshplaza: Bolivia: Banana export prices decreased by 50% Banana export prices fell from 2.40 to 1.30 dollars per box in the last six months, stated the president of the Community Organization of Banana Workers of the Tropic of Cochabamba, Agustin Conde. According to Conde, the decrease in the international price of…

YPFB monitors affected area by the oil spill in Chapare

El Deber reports: YPFB monitors affected area by the oil spill Some 65 professionals are working in mitigation tasks. Daily, test the water and the land of Ivirgarzama. The Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) contingency teams, are monitoring water at the Magariños river and land in Ivirgarzama (Cochabamba), where last Friday [08/07/2015] there was an…

Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open

Roberto Ortiz writes in the blog of the Panam Post: Bolivia’s Narco State Now Out in the Open International Warnings Do Little to Temper Drug-Trafficking Haven Roberto Ortiz October 27, 2014 at 4:24 pm One year ago, in October 2013, I wrote “Bolivia, the Narco-Trafficker’s Paradise,” published in El Deber and El Dia. My article…