How did Bolivia’s judicial system become one of the worst in the world? – ¿Cómo el sistema judicial de Bolivia se convirtió en uno de los peores del mundo?

Luis Yáñez, El Deber: Since the beginning of the operations of the Bolivian judicial system, it has had serious structural deficiencies for its operation. However, this crisis has worsened in recent years. Indeed, its functioning and institutionalization have suffered a worrying deterioration since the assumption of power by former President Evo Morales in 2006. Since…

The HUNT has begun! – ¡La CACERÍA comenzó!

Scott Mistler-Ferguson, In Sight Crime: Bolivia Anti-Drug Chief Target of Both Bolivia and United States The US indictment of Bolivia’s former anti-narcotics chief on drug and weapons charges means he could possibly be extradited to the United States – a move that Bolivia will decide following his arrest there on charges of illicit enrichment. Maximiliano…

Drug trafficking: owner of Bolivia? – Narcotráfico: ¿dueño de Bolivia?

Editorial, El Deber: The powerful drug clan that no one saw Day after day, new revelations emerge about what appears to be a powerful clan around drug trafficker Omar Rojas Echeverría, whom in Colombia, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States, they call “Bolivian Pablo Escobar.” The most recent thing that…

Bolivia yielded to pressure from anti-vaccine groups and suspended the requirement for a health pass in public places

Helen Hernandez, Oicanadian: Health workers walk in the street during a door-to-door drive to vaccinate residents against COVID-19 in La Paz, Bolivia (REUTERS/Manuel Claure) The determination also provides that “Once the declaration of a Health Emergency is over, the presentation of that card will be requested again” as well as the negative PCR test. But nevertheless,…

Who governs? – Bolivia – ¿Quien gobierna?

Andrés Gómez, Página Siete: Luis’ dilemma From the first day of his inauguration, the cabinet of President Luis Arce ruled for Evo Morales. Then to the hardest core of his electorate. However, what a paradox! Morales is not satisfied with the cabinet that governed for him. He wants more persecuted, more imprisoned, more unhappy Bolivian…