From the editorial page of El Dia: About telephone companies and insecurity What we Bolivians came to find out now. It is now known that the responsible for the insecurity in the country are two private telephone, for allegedly not cooperating in the investigation of the kidnappings and other serious crimes. The Government has been…
Tag: police and judicial corruption
Five years from ignoring who caused death in Porvenir, Pando
Estefany Claros reports for El Dia: The process remains stalled Porvenir, five years without knowing the truth Pando. The opposition says that the Government has the former Prefect Leopoldo Fernández as a trophy. Today [9/11/13] marks five years of the Porvenir massacre, unless you know for sure who were the instigators of the confrontation between…
Authoritarian leaders breed corruption and Bolivia is no longer a surprise
Andres Oppenheimer writes in The Miami Herald: Authoritarian leaders breed corruption BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER AOPPENHEIMER@MIAMIHERALD.COM What’s most amazing about the arrest in Miami of Bolivia’s top anti-corruption police official, caught on tape extorting a bribe from a well-known businessman, was that hardly anybody was surprised by the news. Corruption by top officials of Bolivia, Ecuador,…
Bolivia ruling ochlocracy, now a senior policeman caught in political extortion!
Jay Weaver describes Bolivian ordeal under the ruling ochlocracy, from the Miami Herald: FEDERAL COURTS Bolivia’s anti-corruption chief charged with extorting airline executive in Miami BY JAY WEAVER JWEAVER@MIAMIHERALD.COM Only in Miami: The Bolivian government’s top anti-corruption cop is locked up in a downtown jail cell, accused of shaking down a foreign businessman here for…
Bolivian Corruption 101: Where Bolivia falls under the 2013 Corruption Barometer?
This post is longer than usual, it has Reuters’ worldwide news, followed by Bolivia’s data: Crisis of confidence in government handling of corruption, survey shows By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN | Tue Jul 9, 2013 11:10am IST (Reuters) – A majority of people worldwide believes corruption has worsened in the last two years and they see governments as…
Bolivian justice drowning as a result of central government interference!
Jimmy Ortiz Saucedo writes for Los Tiempos: Justice of the MAS does not hold water In July I wrote an article entitled “Dangerous experiment with the Bolivian justice”, where I said: “is very irresponsible to play with justice! In it lies freedom guarantees, the goods and democracy of a civilized country”. And it was really…
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