One of the “seals” of current Bolivian government is the disproportionate growth of drug trafficking. Not only the political base of current president, the coca growers of the Chapare are to be blamed for supplying the essential. Cocaine production and trafficking has spread all over Bolivia and also we have become transit country for other…
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Bolivian justice update… sad reality under current ochlocracy?
A Bolivian justice update, from El Dia: They denounced Apprehend, two prosecutors for extortion in El Alto The prosecutor for the department of La Paz, Patricia Santos, reported yesterday that an assistant and two prosecutors in the city of El Alto are detained in police cells, to be involved, along with two other people outside…
In Bolivia this is not an understatement: “Justice is rotten”
Manfredo Kempff writes in El Deber: “Justice is rotten” Said by the vice president and I support him fully for the first time: “Justice is rotten”. What has not said by the ‘vice’ is that justice is rotten from the moment that the MAS (who would have that idea?) came up with those judicial elections….
“Bolivia Access to Sea,” Reality, Not Myths
Former Bolivia President, Carlos Mesa writes on behalf of Bolivia, regarding our claim of a sovereign seacoast that was taken by force, by Chile: “Bolivia Access to Sea,” Reality, Not Myths Over 20% of the world’s countries lack seacoast. A finding that is one elementary truth, is that ALL the Mediterranean countries that import or…
Bolivian Justice or ‘the boomerang syndrome’
Renzo Abruzzese writes in El Deber: Justice or ‘the boomerang syndrome’ President Evo Morales has publicly stated that reforming the judiciary did not produce the results expected and nothing helped bring professionals with skirt [pollera is a typical clothing for the indigenous highlands and valleys women] and hat, with reference to their ethnic composition. The…
Bolivian Justice needs to speed up!
Aside of Bolivian Justice been “managed” by the executive power, by the MAS ochlocracy, as they appointed/fired judges, prosecutors et al, it is way to slow, and that needs to change! ANF reports in El Dia: Church expresses concern over slowdown of Justice Monsignor Eugenio Scarpellini, Secretary General of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, expressed yesterday,…
