Bolivia Coca Growers Fight for Control of Legal Production

Cat Rainsford writes for InSight Crime: Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions, escalating a long-simmering conflict for control of legal coca production in the Andean nation. The clashes broke out at the beginning of August between two sectors of the Departmental Association of Coca Producers…

Five cases show that drug traffickers rule in Bolivia

Nelson Peredo reports for La Prensa: Until August, at least five cases of drug trafficking showed that this illicit business continues to rule in Bolivia. The investigation about Pedro Montenegro, the Candia-Castedo clans (in Beni) and Copa (in El Alto), the Paolo Lumia case, the police officers detained with cocaine in Oruro and the narco…

What to do when Bolivia hates you

Bolivian Thoughts opinion: Lewis Manalo fails even with the title of this article … he and the company that made this video game, do not apologize for using our country’s name! This piece and its heading is just a pathetic attempt to cover his faults. This article is basically a useless rant of someone who…

The Persians are coming

Humberto Vacaflor writes for El Diario, old picture at the bottom is from the early days of evo in government, he always showed preference to meet with Iran, Libya, Siria autocrats: The noises of the Persian armies are getting closer and closer to Bolivian reality, as it had happened to the Greeks 2,500 years ago,…