Editorial, Los Tiempos: The arrest, indictment and preventive detention for six months, in the San Pedro prison, La Paz, of the police colonel investigated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and who was national chief anti-drug trafficking in the last nine months of the Morales government could suggest that the national justice system acts…
Tag: police and judicial corruption
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…
A weeping coward and also undesirable – Un cobarde llorón y además indeseable
Humberto Vacaflor, El Deber: A very long whimper Two years and months have passed since coca grower Morales resigned from the presidency and fled the country, but the whining remains intact, from himself and his judicial team paid for revenge. The attorney general continues to order trials against government officials who had to take over…
Political use of justice – Bolivia – Uso político de la justicia
Human Rights Watch observes 16 years of political use of justice in Bolivia [Use this link to read the full World Report 2022 pertaining Bolivia, excerpt follows on Justice] Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, HRW: Political interference has plagued Bolivia’s justice system for years. The Jeanine Áñez government (November 2019-2020) pursued baseless charges against political opponents….
MAS: Who stole like them? – ¿Quién robó como ellos?
Editorial, Los Tiempos: Corruption, looking at the straw in another’s eye The corruption that has been revealed in Santa Cruz, with the so-called phantom items, confirms, for the umpteenth time, that this evil infests without distinction those who exercise power. The government has tried to take advantage of the situation to discredit Santa Cruz, without…
Galloping corruption – Corrupción galopante
Editorial, El Deber: Your corrupt, my corrupt, our corrupt When talking about corruption, one of the first reactions in the political system is to look at the front side to point the finger, hold those on the opposite side responsible, and come out in defense of their own, as if corruption within the own home…
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