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….
Tag: cocaine production
Bolivia fighting for a census and in the Chapare? | Bolivia peleando por un censo y ¿en el Chapare?
Los Tiempos: They find a plane loaded with 270 packages of cocaine in Villa Tunari The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the discovery of a small plane in the vicinity of the Senda Nueva union in the municipality of Villa Tunari, inside which there were 270 packages of cocaine arranged in nine jute bags, which were…
Deforestation, drug trafficking and land seizure | Deforestación, narcotráfico y toma de tierras
Mauricio Quiroz Terán, El Deber: 83% OF THE AFFECTED AREAS ARE IN SANTA CRUZ Deforestation is accelerating and they see the hand of drug trafficking in the land grab Felcn agents and businessmen affirm that there are “territorial enclaves” in Guarayos and Bajo Paraguá in San Ignacio de Velasco. A report from Fundación Tierra indicates…
The return of narcopolitics | El retorno de la narcopolítica
Editorial, Los Tiempos: In the context of the internal struggle in the MAS, a strong dispute has begun that grows as the hours go by and exposes the alleged links between that party and drug trafficking. This internal political confrontation, whose contenders, within the government party, are the so-called “renovators,” who support President Luis Arce…
Drug trafficking | Narcotráfico
Editorial, El Deber: Bolivia without drug trafficking, a march of all In the midst of a fairly cold ambient temperature due to winds from the south, Santa Cruz took to the streets on Tuesday night as it rarely does, with a shared cry to say no to drug trafficking, no to the crime that comes…
Chapare: Priorities | Prioridades
The first banana export happened under the Alternative Development program, a USAID project. Such export only happened since there were two trucks that came from Arica, Chile with tires and went back empty. The project gave high quality bananas, planting and harvesting techniques, credit, as well as marketing assistance to the banana unions that started…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 