UPDATE on Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto’s right for political asylum! Sep/2012

This is an update on Senator’s Roger Pinto whereabouts: Pagina Siete reports: Government does not extend laissez-passer Pinto complies 100 days isolated and two vigils were installed Last night [9/3/12] ACTS, a vigil was held in plaza Bolivia and another in the Legislative Assembly. The Senator by national convergence (CN) Roger Pinto has reached 100…

Roger Pinto’s first warning from Brazil

I’d say strike one and it appears that current Bolivian government is still in wonderland, does not realize who they are messing with and our prestige as a country, internationally continues to drop. Brazil’s remarks are very diplomatic but should be regarded as extremely serious and I believe Bolivia does not want to get more…

The Castaña (Amazonian walnut) is an export leader!!

It is hard to get an accurate translation of “castaña” in many markets is known as Brazilian Nut (chestnut, walnut, nut), even though most of it comes from Bolivia, mainly from Pando, the portion of that department closer to Beni has its produce handled in medium size cities. In any case, it is a product…

Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto’s whereabouts, June 25, 2012

The sixth economic world power and largest international border we share with is Brazil. As such, we also depend a lot on their natural gas demand, they are our biggest, most important neighbor. Current Bolivian government still fails to respond Brazil on the political asylum granted to Senator Pinto. This past week was filled with…

Bolivian Senator Roger Pinto political asylum UPDATE

From Pagina Siete: The Vice-Chancellor Alurralde received information on Wednesday [6/6/12] Brazil confirmed to Bolivia that granted asylum to Senator Pinto The Brazilian Government position reiterated to the Bolivian Foreign Ministry that a safe-conduct be handed in to the Pando Senator, which is necessary to get out of the country. Pagina Siete / La Paz…