ANF reports in Pagina Siete: Should seek visible and invisible land mines National Robot achieved third place in global competition The international humanitarian demining competition gathered 94 representatives of Egypt, Chile and Portugal, among other countries. The Bolivian B0sweeper robot, created by students and engineers from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), took third…
Tag: terrorism
An update on the alleged Rózsa terrorism case: Ocampo’s revelations confirm the staging
El Dia reports: According to lawyers Otto Ritter and Gary Prado Ocampo’s revelations confirm the staging Rózsa case. Defenders of General. Gary Prado Salmon argue that the witness is based on the prosecutors’ libretto. In an evaluation of the statements of My. Miguel Rolando Ocampo this week, the lawyers for Gral. Gary Prado Salmon coincide…
What do we have in common with Cuba, Iran and North Korea? take a guess!
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF and in Spanish GAFI) is a very reputable institution and has been monitoring our fairly new “economy,” El Deber reports: Bolivia and Cuba remain without complying with the norms against money-laundering Bolivia and Cuba are on the list of countries that do not meet international standards against money laundering…
Iran-Latin America links drawing attention in Washington
The following article appears in the Miami Herald, written by Andres Oppenheimer and here is reproduced in its entirety because of the serious repercussions that may have for Bolivia. We may be considered a small country in Latin America, in terms of our economy and population, however it is our country and we cannot be quiet…
Iran officials will be visiting Bolivia
Despite the diplomatic impasse with Argentina, not so long ago when an Interpol criminal got VIP treatment in Bolivia, current government continues to push for a friendship with a country which is in the black list of most western democracies. HoyBolivia.com reports that Iranian congressmen will be visiting very shortly [this week?] the Bolivian Assembly; an…
Money laundering & terrorism financing update
The link below is from an earlier post about the Bolivian performance regarding anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism in the international arena, as evaluated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF, GAFI in Spanish). https://bolivianthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/anti-money-laundering-combating-the-financing-of-terrorism/ Los Tiempos newspaper sent some questions to current Bolivian government regarding about our performance and today a reply was printed,…
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