Editorial, El Deber: One of the most important reserves in Bolivia is being mistreated from various sides without anyone taking responsibility for preventing it. The Isiboro Sécure Park (Tipnis) suffers one of the greatest challenges in its history, due to the recurring and illegal activities of deforestation and felling of trees, illegal coca leaf plantations…
Tag: cocaine production
Terrorist groups at the service of drug trafficking and smuggling mafias – Grupos terroristas al servicio de las mafias del narcotráfico y del contrabando
Editorial, El Deber: Irregular groups in Bolivia The temptations of Evo Morales are not from now, they come from the beginning of the century. Since then he has threatened the formation of irregular armed groups in the Chapare area and it is possible that these already exist, have military training and are ready to act…
Evo Morales is a figure that citizens reject – Evo Morales es una figura que la ciudadanía rechaza
El Diario: Civic acts in the city of El Alto. | Actos cívicos en la ciudad de El Alto. Persona non grata in El Alto After the declaration of Evo Morales as persona non grata in the city of El Alto, by leaders of the Regional Workers Union (COR), opposition parliamentarians assured that it is…
Living in a failed state | Vivir en un Estado fallido
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: The road to turn Bolivia into a failed state is well advanced and perhaps it would not have been necessary to add a section of shame, with the military patrol that surrendered to some smugglers. That unfortunate spectacle was not necessary when clandestine drug trafficking rings are operating in Bajo Paraguá,…
The coca nostra | La coca nostra
Carlos Toranzo, Página Siete: A Brazilian inmate escapes twice from maximum security prisons in Bolivia, several Brazilians are murdered in Bolivia for settling scores for drug trafficking, many of them are from the Primer Comando Capital cartel. Every week the DEA in Paraguay captures small planes from Bolivia full of cocaine. Morales’s masista faction accuses…
Drug trafficking and illegal logging | Narcotráfico y la tala ilegal
Ivan Paredes, El Deber: The Bolivian Amazon under attack: drug trafficking and illegal logging penetrate the area An investigation shows how gangs dedicated to the extraction of wood operate in the Amazon basin. Bolivia and Ecuador are the most affected by this crime. Behind them are the drug trafficking mafias that use the same routes….
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 