By Milen Saavedra, Red Uno: Police announces lawsuit over assaults and stolen weapons during Cotapachi operation The institution will formalize legal action against those who ambushed officers during the garbage-site clearance, confirming that two gas-launching rifles were stolen and seven officers were injured, some seriously. Police announces lawsuit for serious injuries and weapons theft after…
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“Carabineros de Bolivia”
By Soldados de Bolivia, Facebook: Carabineros Unit, on Saavedra Avenue (now Estado Mayor), in La Paz, in the late 1930s The Carabineros institution in Bolivia was founded in January 1937. At that time, the government merged the Security Police with the riflemen regiments to create a new corps called “Carabineros of Bolivia,” inspired by the…
A woman found Bs 50,000 on a public street and chose not to touch the bundles; she called the police | Una mujer halló Bs 50.000 en plena vía pública y decidió no tocar los fajos; llamó a la Policía
By Unitel, Eju.tv: The woman decided not to handle the money and reported it to the authorities, who are investigating the origin of the cash. A woman found several bundles of money on Mariscal Santa Cruz Avenue in the city of La Paz, chose not to touch the bills, and immediately reported it to the…
Reigns anarchy and chaos under the “leadership” of the coca grower caudillo … WTH?!
El Diario reports: Despite the atmosphere of protest and blockade Police leave Achacachi In spite of the climate of conflict in Achacachi, the Bolivian police deployed their troops to this population in the face of the fear of violent actions in that population, while social organizations installed blockade points on the way to Copacabana, Huarina…
Growing up in a prison filled with drug lords: The brutal Bolivian jail where families live alongside their criminal relatives
Sarah Dean writes in Mailonline: Growing up in a prison filled with drug lords: The brutal Bolivian jail where families live alongside their criminal relatives San Pedro prison, the biggest in Bolivia’s main city, La Paz, holds around 3,000 dangerous inmates The prison has no guards inside and is run by criminals who pay for…
Pope Francis at Bolivian prison, calls himself man ‘saved from his many sins”
From Catholic News Service: By David Agren Catholic News Service SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (CNS) — Pope Francis visited one of Latin America’s most notorious prisons, calling himself “a man who was and is saved from his many sins.” “I couldn’t leave Bolivia without seeing you, without sharing the hope and faith given in the cross,”…
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