Editorial, El Deber: The powerful drug clan that no one saw Day after day, new revelations emerge about what appears to be a powerful clan around drug trafficker Omar Rojas Echeverría, whom in Colombia, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States, they call “Bolivian Pablo Escobar.” The most recent thing that…
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Forests for Sale: How Land Traffickers Profit by Slicing up Bolivia’s Protected Areas
by Eduardo Franco Berton Shortly after Bolivia’s Bajo Paraguá Municipal Protected Area was established in February 2021, authorities began receiving reports of invasions and deforestation in and around the new protected area. Local sources say land traffickers are illegally buying up plots of protected land to resell, often repeatedly, to third parties. Mongabay spoke with one…
Masismo y narcotráfico – Masismo and narcotraffick
Editorial, El Deber: Narcosur, a cartel from PCC in Bolivia The Brazilian press reported this week that Bolivia has become a sanctuary for the so-called “Narcosur”, a drug cartel of the First Command of the Capital (PCC) of that country, the largest criminal organization in Brazil and in all of South America. A report published…
Incumple obligaciones antinarcóticos – Breaches anti-narcotics obligations
Reuters, Yahoo News: Biden dice que Venezuela y Bolivia no están haciendo lo suficiente para cumplir con las obligaciones antinarcóticos WASHINGTON (Reuters) – El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, dijo el miércoles que Venezuela y Bolivia no habían tomado medidas durante el año pasado para cumplir con sus obligaciones en virtud de los acuerdos…
Cultivos de coca aumentan en cuatro áreas protegidas – Coca cultivation increases in four protected areas
El Diario: United Nations Report From 315 hectares that there were in 2019, the amount grew to 454 until last year In the country there are 29,400 hectares of the leaf, that is, 7,400 more outside the 22,000 legal hectares European Union expresses its concern and current Government blames Añez government Four of the six…
In Bolivia, certification strategies should be accelerated to combat money laundering, according to specialist – En Bolivia se deben acelerar estrategias de certificación para combatir el lavado de dinero, según especialista
El Deber: The FATF rating will be decisive to guarantee the credibility of the entire public and private financial system and the country as a whole. Next November, the Fourth Round of Evaluations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will take place, which will establish a rating on the actions of the Bolivian State…
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