Editorial, Los Tiempos: The direct threat made against a journalist from Santa Cruz by a person who identified himself as a member of a family linked to drug trafficking is a serious warning of the risk that hangs over the entire country —and not only for information workers— as result of the incessant expansion of…
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Drug trafficking & Luis Arce – Narcotráfico y Luchin
Editorial, El Deber: The fight against drug trafficking Four mega-factories of cocaine were found in a week by the Special Force to Combat Drug Trafficking (Felcn). Two of them in the heart of the Noel Kempff Mercado Park and two in the Isiboro Sécure National Park Indigenous Territory (Tipnis). Two protected areas that have been…
Woman alleged to have sudden fortune arrested in Bolivia
AP reports for CityNews 1130: LA PAZ, Bolivia — Authorities in Bolivia said Thursday they have arrested a woman with suspected links to drug traffickers who amassed an inexplicable fortune within just a few years. Interior Minister Arturo Murillo told the Unitel television station that Dora Vallejos, 36, turned herself in the night before. “She…
Bolivian coca growers despise Mother Nature!
Chapare is the stronghold where evo came to power over 20 years ago, for the last 13 years, he has managed to get absolute control of ALL State powers and deforestation and environmental damage has not only seized both Yungas and Chapare, but has placed in serious jeopardy National Parks like Carrasco, Madidi, TIPNIS, and…
Despite an inept performance, evo relentlessly wants to remain in power, NO matter what!
A very harsh but enlightening Editorial from El Diario, photo obtained from the internet; Insatiable with power Evo Morales is demonstrating that he is insatiable to hold power, despite the fact that in the 12 years he has exercised it, he did not personally do something that could justify him as a good administrator of…
Indigenous of the TIPNIS declared themselves in alert because of a change in the law
Miguel Melendres reports for El Deber: Indigenous of the TIPNIS declared themselves in alert because of a law Proponents of the TIONIS declare emergency and ask for support. Officials from the Indigenous Territory and Isiboro Sécure National Park (TIPNIS) declared themselves in emergency due to the approval of the Amazon Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, the…
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