El Diario: In the name of poverty, they enter municipal sites. These groups exert violence as a method of intimidation “The bullies are the ones who destroy, generate public insecurity, there are armed groups, here (La Paz) there are mafia groups that intimidate the neighbors, threaten them, beat them, the bullies have become a national…
Tag: land-grabbing
Estado, tierras y violencia – State, land and violence
Editorial, Los Tiempos: What happened on Thursday in a rural area of Guarayos, Santa Cruz, is surprising due to the violence with which an irregular armed group took 17 people hostage and tortured them for seven hours, and is extremely concerned because similar events had already occurred recently. more than a month in the same…
Grupos armados en Bolivia – Armed groups in Bolivia
Editorial, Página Siete: In a report published on September 26 of this year, Página Siete warned that in the Guarayos province of Santa Cruz, there are armed groups that intend to settle on community lands and even on productive properties already titled. On that occasion, a council had given 10 days for its dismantling because,…
Distribución individual de la tierra – Individual land distribution
Pagina Siete: Anapo proposes individual land distribution The National Association of Oilseed Producers (Anapo) asked the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) to act with the eviction of overwhelming people in productive properties and suggests that the land be distributed not only to communities, but also individually. The president of Anapo, Fidel Flores, read a statement…
Tierras y demagogia masista – Lands and masista demagoguery
Editorial, El Deber: La problemática de la tierra en Santa Cruz La problemática de la tierra está llegando a límites preocupantes en el departamento de Santa Cruz, mientras el Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria (INRA) y la Administradora de Bosques y Tierras (ABT) miran a un costado y no asumen el control que les toca….
Land Trafficking Fuels Constant Corruption in Bolivia
InSight Crime: The arrest of a Bolivian minister for alleged bribery related to land trafficking highlights how this practice has fueled corruption in the country time and time again. Last week, Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced that his cabinet colleague and the Minister for Rural Development and Land, Edwin Ronald Characayo Villega, had been arrested along…
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