From the USG, regarding Bolivia’s performance under current coca grower leadership… follows excerpts of our “distinguished” contribution to this infamous group of narco traffickers: Presidential Determination — Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2016 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major…
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Operation Naked King: U.S. Secretly Targeted Bolivia’s Evo Morales In Drug Sting
Ryan Grim and Nick Wing write for Huffpost Politics: Operation Naked King: U.S. Secretly Targeted Bolivia’s Evo Morales In Drug Sting A confidential informant says the DEA had its sights set on Bolivia’s populist leader. The United States has secretly indicted top officials connected to the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales for their alleged…
No doubt that Bolivian narcotrafficking is in the rise under current gov!
El Diario reports: Peru detects 222 flights of Bolivian narco-planes • In three months, national aircraft entered Peruvian territory to load 77 tons of drugs, according to a lawmaker from Peru. A report by the Anti-Drug Directorate reveals that 13 flights a day depart from the Peruvian jungle to eastern Bolivia. Ollanta Umala government approved…
In Latin America, Quiet Diplomacy Bears Fruit
From The New York Times: The Opinion Pages | EDITORIAL In Latin America, Quiet Diplomacy Bears Fruit By THE EDITORIAL BOARD. Aug/13/2015 Nearly seven years ago, President Evo Morales of Bolivia expelled the American ambassador, denouncing him for “conspiring against democracy and seeking the division of Bolivia.” Months later, Mr. Morales’s government kicked the Drug…
What is needed in Bolivia? Coca crops or textiles…?
Humberto Vacaflor writes in El Diario: Coca crops or textiles When the government announced the dismissal of workers of the National Textile Corporation (Enatex), it should be disclosed for reasons of national accounting and awareness, the number of jobs that illegal coca has created in the country. Because, as everyone knows, the company that now…
The Bolivian Case premiere, a film about drugs and justice
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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