Travel, BBC: The world’s most dangerous road (Image credit: Harald von Radebrecht/Alamy) By Shafik Meghji A drive down Bolivia’s infamous “Death Road” takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold. After cresting the 4,800m Cumbre pass, the trufi (shared taxi) plunged into a cloud of swirling mist….
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Now the reason for the existence of evo and the MAS is understood – Ahora se entiende el porqué de la existencia de evo y el MAS
Editorial, El Deber: Country increasingly narco Do we still believe that Bolivia is a simple transit country in the millionaire and illegal drug business? In recent years, the official discourse of the long government of Evo Morales, also permanent president of the coca growers, tried to position the concept that the country did not produce…
The HUNT has begun! – ¡La CACERÍA comenzó!
Scott Mistler-Ferguson, In Sight Crime: Bolivia Anti-Drug Chief Target of Both Bolivia and United States The US indictment of Bolivia’s former anti-narcotics chief on drug and weapons charges means he could possibly be extradited to the United States – a move that Bolivia will decide following his arrest there on charges of illicit enrichment. Maximiliano…
The hunt begins and the pedophile trembles! – ¡Comienza la cacería y el pedófilo tiembla!
Página Siete: They suggest to coca growers “not to miss the reward” Congresswoman Luciana Campero, from Comunidad Ciudadana (CC), suggested that the coca growers of the Chapare not miss out on the opportunity to receive the five million dollar reward offered by the United States to access information on Maximiliano Dávila and his links with…
Drug factories multiply in the depths of protected areas – Se multiplican las fábricas de droga en las entrañas de las áreas protegidas
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: Historical data between 2017 and 2021 from the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn) shows an increase in drug factories within protection zones, forest reserves and indigenous territories “Payroll: Calicha, Negro, Adam, Maira; 4,956 (Kg)”, says the notebook found in May of last year by agents of the Special Force…
Narco 101: Masista legacy – Legado masista
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Narcolabyrinths The crisis of confidence in the Bolivian justice and police becomes more evident in situations like the current one: there is no way for drug traffickers to find a deserved punishment. Such are the links that drug trafficking weaves that, especially in countries like ours, with a discredited Police and subjugated…
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