From Gawker.com: Bolivian drug dealers botch million dollar money drop Drug traffickers messed up big time when they dropped a bag containing more than a million dollars right into the hands of Bolivian anti-drug police. The drop from a low-flying plane in the Santa Cruz province was intercepted by drug enforcement officials after it was intended…
Tag: coca grower
Double standards are recurrent under this coca growing government…
This is an excellent editorial from El Diario: Double ethical standards about coca The current Government of the country apparently has double ethics in relation to the production and cultivation of the coca leaf. Indeed, on the one hand announces that it is dedicated to eradicate large areas of the bush, while, on the other…
What happens with our LEGAL Chapare banana’s exports???!!
El Deber’s editorial is striking!! Bolivia is about to lose its most important LEGAL, sustainable export from Chapare…!!?? The future of Chapare The Argentine Government has just closed its borders to the entry of bananas produced in Bolivia, mainly from the Chapare, creating a political, economic and diplomatic problem that the Government of the MAS…
Current Bolivian gov continues to disregard international agreements and engages in demagogue practices…
It is unfortunate and embarrassing that current Bolivian government continues to fail to honor international agreements. Not only fails to comply with diplomacy standards, failing to give the safe-conduct to Senator Roger Pinto; but now also wants to confront the world in coca related matters; and its message to the Bolivian public sounds more like…
Bolivian lowlands environment in peril
This cartoon appeared in El Dia, December 19, 2011. It says: “Happiness: Is the forest to destroy and plant single crops” and you see in the right side, an illegal coca grower planting the source for cocaine, crime and drug addiction. On the left side you have a private agriculturalists planting a single crop, could…
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