The damage to our country is done!! with this approval, not only the TIPNIS will suffer, the indigenous groups are being played and will lose their privacy, their way of living…while the rest of us will see how one of our national parks gets destroyed! Not only does this government praise to erase a Law…
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It was our problem after all… drug consumption in Bolivia
Current Bolivian president favorite speech was to say that cocaine consumption was not a Bolivian problem, it was the “gringos”… unfortunately and as it often happens with this person, his remarks have little if any empirical evidence, he speaks as he pleases… no analysis, no long-term planning to address those issues, and certainly no thoughts…
In Bolivia, higher mineral prices lead to more illegal and violent take overs
A sad reality in the Bolivia “of the change process,” instead of taking advantage of the extraordinary high prices in the international markets for our raw materials, Bolivia shows little security to private investment and what is worst, has generated anarchical reactions on communities nationwide, Walter Vasquez reports for La Razon: According to data from…
New “law” against the TIPNIS
Egocentric, caudillo, arrogant, intolerant, anarchical and other words do not suffice to qualify this government’s behavior regarding the TIPNIS. Both the indigenous territory and the National Park will lose forever their protected condition, due to the imposition and ill-disposed attitude by sanctioning this so-called law for “prior consultation.” Furthermore, this government is now saying this…
Current Bolivian government is the MOST CONFLICTIVE in history…
MIlenio Foundation has issued on February 3, 2012 their report No. 132 which demonstrates how current government has become the most conflicting in Bolivian history. I am not surprised, as current president’s appearance in Bolivian politics started with the infamous blockades in the Chapare since the times he was just the leader of the Chapare…
Iran’s only political interest in this side of the world?
We know Iran’s president has internal problems back home, his recent travel to Latin America was a desperate attempt to show to his citizens he has acceptance abroad (it appears he couldn’t visit Bolivia because Argentina exerted huge pressure to our current president not to receive the Iranian president). Not only he has distanced from…
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