Editorial from El Diario, picture from the internet: It is unknown to anyone that the international community has extensive knowledge of the results of the referendum on February 21, 2016 and that this process was viewed with great sympathy, because it was about consolidating the existing democracy in the country. The expressions of support for…
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Narcotrafficking 101 in a Bolivia under evo …
An striking editorial from El Deber, picture at the bottom is what any google search shows when we look for cocaine in Bolivia: The fight against drug trafficking An ambush of Umopar policemen in Chapare, carried out by cocaleros of a union in alliance with drug traffickers, has been one of the most disturbing news…
Chapare, “no man’s land” [evo delivers!]
El Diario reports: According to opponents The ambush of a Umopar patrol, after discovering the airstrip, is a fact that shows the close complicity of coca growers and drug trafficking, says Oscar Ortiz Regardless of the injured personnel, the death of a resident was recorded due to the impact of a gunshot, a fact that…
Road advances affecting indigenous peoples of Tipnis
A necessary Editorial from El Diario: Indigenous peoples living in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (Tipnis) are concerned that the construction of the San Ignacio de Moxos-Villa Tunari highway continues, including with the construction of bridges; they add that these works seriously harm them and that 65 populations will be affected not…
UN warns of increased drug trafficking in Bolivia
El Diario reports: The representative of the international organization in our country, Thierry Rostan, asked to strengthen the presence of Bolivian anti-drug forces mainly in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Bolivia, Thierry Rostan, during the press conference held yesterday [01/25/2019] in this city. The…
Tribunal warns about the negative effects of Polygon 7 for the TIPNIS
Los Tiempos reports: The former president of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador and current member of the Court of Defense of the Rights of Nature, Alberto Acosta, warned from Quito that the Polygon 7, inhabited by colonizing peasants, constitutes a worrisome threat for the indigenous people and for the conservation of the Indigenous Territory and…
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