Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: The Argentinian Province Jorge Lanata said that the unique contribution of the Kirchner to his country was that they introduced the drug narcotraffick, thanks to coca entering Argentina from Bolivia, thousands of tons. These governments are, indeed, changing the history of their countries. Argentina received its name because it…
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Coca-ine: INCB Attacks Bolivia on Coca Stance
The INCB (JIFE in Spanish) expressed its deception on current Bolivian government’s intent to ‘justify’ the use of coca leafs; Hawaii News Daily reports: INCB Attacks Bolivia on Coca Stance February 28, 2012 By Phillip Smith In its 2011 Annual Report, the International Narcotics Control Board, which monitors the implementation of international drug control treaties, has attacked Bolivia…
Bolivian government revised its position with UN’s INCB re: coca
Pagina Siete reports on Bolivian government next actions with the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB, JIFE in Spanish). [INCB is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. It had predecessors under…
Relentless coca… cocaine production???
These two cartoons portray the way coca crop and its “processed products” have an impact on our lives… This is from El Dia (11/24/11), and it also relates to the TIPNIS struggle for survival: the defeated (no road through TIPNIS) powerful coca-grower/intercultural person (new “marketing” sociological name to brand some of the supporters of this…
Presidential duality?
El Diario cartoon (10/29/11) is eloquent!! Current Bolivian president and current coca grower leader of the six federations from the Chapare region is being handled like a kid who did something terribly wrong. As he holds the TIPNIS agreement he had to endure, the coca growers in the person of one of their leaders who…
Current Bolivia’s friends: Venezuela, Iran, Syria… why??
With their openly antagonism against free enterprise practices and open market activities, this government engages in questionable relations; along with the ALBA alliance Bolivia has with Venezuela, it embarks more and more with regimes like those of Iran and Syria. The latter with serious internal problems, like in other countries that experienced the coming of…
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