Bolivia unveils anti-terror unit to fight ‘threatening’ foreign groups

Report Agencies for Daily Times: Bolivia’s interim government on Tuesday unveiled a new anti-terrorism police force it said was aimed at dismantling foreign groups “threatening” the troubled South American country. “This anti-terrorist group has a mission of dismantling absolutely all the terrorist cells that are threatening our homeland,” Interior Minister Arturo Murillo said during an official…

How Bolivia’s Mighty Morales Has Fallen

Raul Peñaranda writes for NPR News: Raúl Peñaranda is a Bolivian journalist, former Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and author of a book on former President Evo Morales’ efforts to control the media in Bolivia. Peñaranda is the editor of the news site Brújula Digital. He was the most important Bolivian leader of the…

Mexican cartels in Bolivia – Los cárteles mexicanos en Bolivia

Editorial from Los Tiempos, photos from the internet: Mexican cartels in Bolivia Among the many problems that afflict our country, there is one that looms as one of the most fearsome threat to the future. These are the activities related to drug trafficking, and their multiple sequels. The data that account for the magnitude of…

Bolivia’s farmers criticize Morales, fight centralization

AFP reports fro France 24: Montero (Bolivia) (AFP) Bolivian dairy farmer Jose Roca’s blue eyes glow with anger when he talks about indigenous ex-president Evo Morales and his supporters. “They call us racists, separatists, all the bad adjectives are for us,” he says. With his 500 cows and 250 acres of land, Roca is a…

The secret of Chapare – El secreto del Chapare

Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario, coca/cocaine photos from the Chapare/internet: The secret of Chapare Some secret has the Chapare to stand firm despite the blockade, the last blockade, of the coca growers who defend the fugitive leader. The coca growers themselves closed the entry and exit exits of their region, in a kind of…