Tonight (7/11/12), El Deber website published some highlights on Veja’s reaction from Bolivian government’s reaction. I went into Veja’s website and tried to translate the whole report, please bare with my Portunglish… Bolivian censorship attempts to suppress the Brazilian press Not satisfied in repressing the press in its own territory, the Bolivarian Governments begin to…
Tag: narcotraffick
Narcotrafficking amongst us Bolivians!
A serious call for attention, an editorial from Los Tiempos: Narco-trafficking amongst us The danger of falling into a kind of passivity and collective condescension is as large as the involving drug trafficking itself and its sequels A series of news widely reported during the last days in the mainstream media, although overshadowed by other…
Two Brazilian congressmen want their Congress to repudiate current Bolivian government
This report from El Dia, and it is also worth remembering that the Acre used to be Bolivian soil. Two members of the Congress of the State of Acre, Brazil, blamed the Government of Evo Morales by the increase in drug trafficking in the region. Statements made following the first demonstration against the crack and…
The Bolivian coca-ine reality show
During the last six years, the coca/cocaine industry has permeated our society, has changed our pacific lifestyle and threatens to become our worst nightmare: This is from El Diario, March 13, 2012: A full airplane is trying to lift-off on its way to Austria, it has the label “austere coca grower entourage” Current Bolivian president…
USA fails Bolivia in the drug trafficking war, March 2012
2012 INCSR: Introduction BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Report March 7, 2012 Legislative Basis for the INCSR The Department of State’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has been prepared in accordance with section 489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the…
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…
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