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….
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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…
Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model … WTH!?
Hoybolivia.com reports: Dorado: Evo spends without permission to follow failed model Santa Cruz.- In connection with President Evo Morales’s trip to Venezuela to commemorate the four years since Hugo Chávez’s death, congressman of the Democrat political party, Luis Felipe Dorado said that the president “continues to spend without permission Bolivian resources for his travels of private…
Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder
From Bloomberg Business Week: Bolivia’s Desperate Miners Are Doing Desperate Things—Like Murder Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery? by Monte Reel Clashes at a roadblock on Aug. 25, the day Illanes was killed. Photographer: Juan Karita/AP Photo Rodolfo Illanes, the vice minister in charge of domestic affairs…
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
Georgina Jiménez, writes for IC Magazine via Truth Out A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia Over the past 10 years, the area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from three million hectares in 2007[1] to more than thirty one million[2]. Precisely 28.84% of the surface of Bolivia…
It is not a game, Bolivia is turning into a failed State, a narc one!
It is no secret that Bolivian president has claimed over and over that he is foremost the leader of the coca grower’s of Chapare. Furthermore, a UN report states that over 90% of the Chapare coca goes to narcotraffick … over the last eleven years, this person had absolute control of all State powers, thus…
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