David Gagne reports for InSight Crime: Arrests Suggest Brazilian Gangs Are Deepening Presence in Bolivia Recent actions carried out in Bolivia by Brazil‘s two most powerful prison gangs indicate these groups are looking to deepen their presence in the Andean nation as part of a wider struggle to gain control of the regional drug trade….
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Bolivia Minister Sticks to Party Line on Foreign Cartel Presence … WTH?!
David Cagne reports for InSight Crime: Bolivia Minister Sticks to Party Line on Foreign Cartel Presence Bolivia’s interior minister said emissaries of Brazilian and Colombian drug trafficking groups are operating within the Andean nation, but the scope of foreign participation in the country’s drug trade could be greater than the minister admits. [cartoon is from…
Growing coca in Bolivia polluted our environment!
This cartoon from El Diario, depicts two people talking about questioning the fact that growing coca goes against Mother Nature. Coca crops, leaves, is used to make cocaine: damage sour soil, causes deforestation and lack of water. On top of that this government also threatens our environment y trying to push a dam in El Bala…
British drug smuggler describes life inside notorious Bolivian jail where governor snorted cocaine and murder was part of everyday life
Lewis Panther rerports for Mirror: British drug smuggler describes life inside notorious Bolivian jail where governor snorted cocaine and murder was part of everyday life Thomas McFadden spent five years inside a jail in Bolivia and watched men beaten to death but lived to tell the tale in a new film. Turning up to prison…
Bolivia is becoming like Somalia or Afghanistan, cocaine is taking over!
This cartoon is from Pagina Siete, 03/06/2017: It shows, a coca grower desire to pay an annual tax of only Bs50, less than $10 dollars! Somalia and/or Afghanistan have fallen to the control of small groups who with guns and money do as they [lease in those countries … similar thing is happening in Bolivia….
US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish
Sabrina Martin reports for PanAm Post: US Claims Bolivia and Venezuela Allow Drug Trafficking to Flourish Once again Bolivia and Venezuela, along with Burma, are the countries where there is a “demonstrable failure” in their obligations to fight drug trafficking. [this is a no-brainer considering the coca grower caudillo from the region has become president, after…
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