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…
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A compelling reason why not build dams in Bolivia: New species are registered in Madidi
El Diario reports: New species are registered in Madidi Dozens of new species of mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and hundreds of butterflies were discovered by a scientific expedition in the Bolivian park Madidi. The terrestrial paradise of biodiversity, little explored is located in the Amazon of Bolivia and adjacent to Peru; The Madidi Reserve…
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…
Banking Tax is criticized
Fides reports via Los Tiempos: Banking Tax is criticized The executive secretary of the Association of Private Banks of Bolivia (Asoban), Nelson Villalobos, assured that the increase in the additional aliquot of the Corporate Income Tax (IUE) of the financial sector will affect the issue of credits to the public, because it will prevent the…
Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent
Reuters reports: Bolivia says February inflation was 0.38 percent Bolivian consumer prices rose 0.38 percent in February, the official National Statistics Institute said on Friday, marking an increase in inflation from 0.10 percent in January. Rising food and beverage prices led February’s increase. The South American natural gas exporting nation expects inflation of 5.03 percent…
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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